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daveD
daveD

Reputation: 976

Android: view local html file not showing all browsers

My app is generating a HTML file, which I then want to show to the user, my code is as follows -

Uri uri = Uri.parse("file://" + fileName);
Intent browserIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
browserIntent.setDataAndType(uri, "text/html");
browserIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_BROWSABLE);
startActivity(browserIntent);

It then shows me the "Complete action using" but only lists FireFox browser. I have Chrome, Opera & Dolphin browsers installed as well. Why dont I get to choose all of them ? Thank you.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2963

Answers (4)

user2827212
user2827212

Reputation: 11

Depending on your application result, if really don't have needing, you can do a WebView and avoid this work on choose a browser to open your html file. Is simple, you can create a web_file_reader.xml with the following code:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".WebActivity" >

    <WebView  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/web_viewer1"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"/>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/but_leave"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:text="leave page" />

</RelativeLayout>

And so, on your class onCreate callback method, do:

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) 
{
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.relatorios_activity);

Button leave = (Button) findViewById(R.id.but_leave);
sair.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()
{           
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) 
    {
        finish();
    }
    });

    String fileURL = "file://" + filePath; //it's your file path name string

    WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.wev_viewer1);
    webView.setVerticalScrollBarEnabled(true);
    webView.setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(true);
    webView.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
    webView.loadUrl(fileURL);       
}

Set a button to open the following intent from your main activity:

Intent browserView = new Intent(/*your main activity context*/,WebActivity.class);
startActivity(browserView);

This will open any html file with any configuration of layout and/or java script depending for you O.S version on a new Activity.

Upvotes: 1

daveD
daveD

Reputation: 976

I think its possible to make them all work from a single intent using a chooser. I so far have found 3 slightly different intents -

    // chrome ??
    Intent intent1 = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);        
    intent1.setDataAndType(uri, "multipart/related");

    // default "Internet" browser
    Intent intent2 = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);
    intent2.setDataAndType(uri, "text/html");
    intent2.setClassName("com.android.browser", "com.android.browser.BrowserActivity");         

    // any other browser (FireFox/HTML Viewer) ??
    Intent intent3 = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    intent3.setDataAndType(uri, "text/html");
    intent3.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_BROWSABLE);

Its possible to put ALL of these intents into a single chooser, using the solution offered here - How to make an intent with multiple actions

I'm keeping logcat's answer as accepted, as it showed me where I needed to go. Thanks.

Upvotes: 5

logcat
logcat

Reputation: 3454

You can use rooted phone, grab Chrome apk, use apktool to take a look inside a manifest. There you will see that Chrome support only schemes http/https/about/javascript usually, and file scheme only once in the following intent filter:

<intent-filter>
  <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
  <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
  <data android:mimeType="multipart/related" android:scheme="file"/>
</intent-filter>

So you can try to change mime type and do the same investigation for other browsers.

Upvotes: 2

CommonsWare
CommonsWare

Reputation: 1006539

Those other apps do not support the file:// scheme, presumably. There is no guarantee that the device will have a browser capable of loading local files.

Upvotes: 1

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