Developing Android Applications with Adobe AIR

The StageWebView Class

The flash.media.StageWebView uclass is a new class for displaying and interacting with rich HTML content in an AIR for Android application. It is a subclass of the EventDispatcher class.

The flash.media.StageWebView class uses the web control as provided by the native system that may vary slightly from one device to another. There is currently very little interaction between AIR and the HTML content.

StageWebView is not a display object, and is therefore not adding to the displayList. Create a StageWebView object and set its stage property to attach it directly to the stage. It always lies on top of your content, so if you want other objects to occupy the same view area, you must remove it first:

import flash.media.StageWebView;

var webView:StageWebView = new StageWebView();
webView.stage = this.stage;

The size of the area dedicated to web content is defined in the viewPort property as a rectangle. Here it covers the stage width and 75% of the stage height:

import flash.geom.Rectangle;

var verticalBounds:int = stage.stageHeight*0.75;
webView.viewPort = new Rectangle(0, 0, stage.stageWidth, verticalBounds);

To load content, call the loadURL method and pass the URL of the site. Add a listener so that in case an error occurs you can notify your user. Location is the event property for the site to load:

import flash.events.ErrorEvent; webView.addEventListener(ErrorEvent.ERROR, onError); webView.loadURL("http://www.npr.org"); function onError(event:ErrorEvent):void { ...