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javaandroidcookieswebview
Basj
Basj

Reputation: 46353

Cookies with WebView

I'm creating an Android app embedding just a browser displaying a website, using WebView:

mywebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.activity_main_webview);
WebSettings webSettings = mywebView.getSettings();
webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
mywebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
    @Override
    public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) { ... }
});
mywebView.loadUrl("http://www.example.com");

I noticed two strange things:

How to enable features like cookies and opening (or at least downloading) PDF files?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1037

Answers (1)

Cheticamp
Cheticamp

Reputation: 62841

Here is a gist of a small app that demonstrates how to enable cookies in WebView and how to download/open a PDF file.

Note that the app demonstrates two ways of opening a PDF file. The first way opens the PDF within WebView; the second way opens the PDF in an external app if one is defined for PDF files.

It is important to remember that WebView does not offer full-blown browser-like support. From the documentation for WebView:

Basic usage

By default, a WebView provides no browser-like widgets, does not enable JavaScript and web page errors are ignored. If your goal is only to display some HTML as a part of your UI, this is probably fine; the user won't need to interact with the web page beyond reading it, and the web page won't need to interact with the user. If you actually want a full-blown web browser, then you probably want to invoke the Browser application with a URL Intent rather than show it with a WebView.

Google continues to refine WebView, so you will want to keep abreast of changes. In addition, Google continues to address the security of WebView and, for instance, will no longer support OAuth requests originating from a WebView. See this.

Upvotes: 4

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