Wrapping HTML in an app for Android

Question

I have an existing site (social in nature) and it already has a mobile web version too, so what I basically want to do is wrap that view in an Android app and maybe add a nice s

Answer 1

You would need two activites

• Splash Screen (use a timer and after x seconds move to the next activity)
• Main

In the main activity you would need to set a layout with a webView in your layout so something like:

and the code:

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
    mWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    mWebView.loadUrl("http://www.google.com");
}

and the permissions:

in the manifest file.

If you want to turn the title bar off you will also need to add:

Read the docs for more help! An example for Google for this exactly and I referenced is http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-webview.html