How to load any format of base64 data to webview in Android?

Question

I am implementing an android application related to Webview. I am getting base64 data string from server that data format may be jpg or pdf file or doc file etc

Answer 1

please have alook at https://github.com/gregko/WebArchiveReader for a good example and hope it may help you.

byte[] imageRaw = null;
  try {
     URL url = new URL("http://some.domain.tld/somePicture.jpg");
     HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

     InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());
     ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

     int c;
     while ((c = in.read()) != -1) {
         out.write(c);
     }
     out.flush();

     imageRaw = out.toByteArray();

     urlConnection.disconnect();
     in.close();
     out.close();
  } catch (IOException e) {
     // TODO Auto-generated catch block
     e.printStackTrace();
  }

  String image64 = Base64.encodeToString(imageRaw, Base64.DEFAULT);

  String urlStr   = "http://example.com/my.jpg";
  String mimeType = "text/html";
  String encoding = null;
  String pageData = "<img src=\"data:image/jpeg;base64," + image64 + "\" />";

  WebView wv;
  wv = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
  wv.loadDataWithBaseURL(urlStr, pageData, mimeType, encoding, urlStr);

Answer 2

Just Try it:

webView.loadData(urlString, "text/html; charset=utf-8", "base64");