July 2013
Beginner to intermediate
156 pages
3h 33m
English
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Chapter 4. WebView, WebKit, and WebSettings
In this chapter, we will be introducing the WebView control and its capabilities. WebView in Android is a wrapper around the WebKit rendering engine, and can be used to display web pages inside your application. As a developer, you can use this control to render any web page as part of your application. These pages can be local or can be consumed from the Web. We will be using the WebView control to host our hybrid application. Although WebView itself is very powerful, the current API support is restricted by various specifications from standards governing bodies and individual organizations. Hence, it is often necessary to extend the API set to allow hybrid applications to access to platform capabilities.
The WebView as a Web Browser
A WebView is often used to load HTML content within a native application. The WebView enables you to embed a web browser, which does not have any chrome (browser) controls including window frames, menus, toolbars and scroll bars into your activity layout.
The WebView is capable of displaying online or offline web content within its layout using HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS technologies. It also includes standard browser features like history, zooming, JavaScript, rendering CSS, and so on.
The most common implementation is to facilitate advertisement loading from remote servers. WebView often comes in handy for rendering complex UI views. One good example is the Facebook and LinkedIn applications wherein the news ...
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