Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Third Edition

30 Browsing the Web and WebView

Each photo you get from Flickr has a page associated with it. In this chapter, you are going to update PhotoGallery so that users can press a photo to see its Flickr page. You will learn two different ways to integrate web content into your apps, shown in Figure 30.1. The first works with the device’s browser app (left), and the second uses a WebView to display web content within PhotoGallery (right).

Figure 30.1  Web content: two different approaches

One Last Bit of Flickr Data

For both ways, you need to get the URL for a photo’s Flickr page. If you look at the JSON you are currently ...