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shreevaze
shreevaze

Reputation: 13

Can we use TextView to create book app on Android?

I want to create a simple book application in android which does not need internet connection and has been looking for the solutions.

I did get a approach here

But as per Android tutorial webview can only be used for getting the html from website which needs internet connection.

Does anyone have any better idea, how to do this or any other approach?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1035

Answers (3)

frogatto
frogatto

Reputation: 29285

WebView can load local HTML files in addition to fetching HTML from the Internet. So, you can write your book in HTML and embed them in your APK (assets, databases, files, etc). Then, you can dynamically load those HTML contents in a WebView to show user your book.

Suppose you have created a HTML book called book.html in your assets directory. Then the following code loads it into a WebView:

WebView wv = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
wv.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/book.html");

In case of fetching HTML from a database, you can use this code.

WebView wv = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
String html = fetchHTMLFromDB();
wv.loadDataWithBaseURL("", html, "text/html", "UTF-8", "");

Upvotes: 2

Prachi
Prachi

Reputation: 2559

create HTML files and save it in Assets folder and open them in webview but better approach is to create database

Upvotes: 0

HassanUsman
HassanUsman

Reputation: 1973

I think to complete this task without internet not possible else you can save all the books in database

Upvotes: 0

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