The Harder Way: WebView
Oftentimes, though, you want to display web content within your own activities instead of heading off to the browser. You may want to display HTML that you generate yourself, or you may want to lock down the browser somehow. For apps that include help documentation, it is common to implement it as a web page so that it is easy to update. Opening a web browser to a help web page does not look professional, though, and it prevents you from customizing behavior or integrating that web page into your own user interface.
When you want to present web content within your own user interface, you use the WebView class. We are calling this the “harder” way here, but it is pretty darned easy. (Anything is hard compared to using ...
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