Displaying Android asset files in a WebView?

Question

I have seen various discussions on the problem of serving WebView pages from assets, none of which seemed definitive.

I want to be able to use a webview to display h

Answer 1

Well, I found something that seems to work (on 1.6 and 2.2), in spite of a warning that it would recurse.

I also discovered that a css style-sheet link inside the first and second page both work without the following intercept. Odd and it makes me a bit nervous. Thoughts?

Here's the code:

WebView wv = (WebView)this.findViewById(R.id.splashWebView);
wv.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {  
  @Override  
  public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url)  
  {  
    view.loadUrl(url);
    return true;
  }  
}); 
wv.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/html_no_copy/demo_welcome.html");

Here's the file contents:

demo_welcome.html:



  
    
    
    
  
  
    
Testing One Two Three
    CLICK HERE

    OR HERE
  


test.html:



  
    
    
    
  
  
    
TEST.HTML