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JonRed
JonRed

Reputation: 2971

JQuery functions not working in Android App development

I may be going about this completely the wrong way, but I'm attempting to migrate a web-based application to an Android application with as minimal changes as possible.

I have set up my Android application to populate from an HTML page, which works fine in my original basic example.

However, when I try to add any JQuery functions, these fail.

I have the following code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

    <head>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            alert('outside doc ready');
            $(document).ready(function () {
                alert('inside JQuery');
            });
        </script>
    </head>

    <body>Some text</body>

</html>

Rendered in a browser, I get both the alert messages. Rendered through the Android App on my Samsung Galaxy S3, I simply get the first 'outside doc ready' alert. I have previously included a JQuery Mobile link, but it made no difference and my understanding is that it is more a UI function set anyway.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If any further information is required, please let me know and I'll edit the question.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 397

Answers (2)

ncksllvn
ncksllvn

Reputation: 5769

To load jQuery externally, you have to add the internet permission to the Android Manifest.

Upvotes: 2

JonRed
JonRed

Reputation: 2971

I have got this working.

For reasons I hope someone can explain, JQuery was not being loaded. I manually saved the JQuery library and added it into the 'assets' folder alongside the test html page. I then simply modified the include line...

<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.min.js"></script>

And the page started working.

I suspect there are some security limitations at play here, as including 3rd party or external Javascript files to an application running in a local context is probably a bit dodgy.

If you took the time to read, thank you.

Upvotes: 0

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