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Projectile Fish
Projectile Fish

Reputation: 955

Android 4.4 Kitkat Won't Show SVGs in WebView

I have an app that shows a full screen svg image in a WebView. Everything works perfectly fine in my Android 4.2 test device and in the emulator. However in Android 4.4 the svg image just shows up as a broken image.

Does anyone have a fix for this problem or know why it is happening? Thanks.

    browser=(ClickableWebView)view.findViewById(R.id.my_browser);
    browser.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
    browser.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
    browser.getSettings().setRenderPriority(RenderPriority.HIGH);
    browser.getSettings().setDisplayZoomControls(false);
    browser.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
    browser.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true); 

    url = "<html><body style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0 \"><table align=\"center\"   cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 style=\"height:100%; width:100%; \"><tr><td align=\"center\" style=\"vertical-align:middle;\"><img src=\"file:///android_res/drawable/" + filename + ".svg\" height=\"" + height + "\"/><br><font size=\"0\">.</font></td></tr></table></body></html>";

    browser.loadDataWithBaseURL(url, url, "text/html", Encoding.UTF_8.toString(), url);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1599

Answers (1)

Projectile Fish
Projectile Fish

Reputation: 955

Okay so after some playing around i've managed to fix it.

For some reason on Android 4.4, svg images must be stored in the assets folder (file:///android_asset/). On previous Android versions it was fine to store svgs in the drawable folders but it seems this is not the case anymore.

Upvotes: 1

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