Building Your Own Web Browser

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∟Building Your Own Web Browser

This chapter provides tutorial notes on the android.webkit.WebView class. Topics include building your own Web browser with the WebView class; setting INTERNET permission for the application; using WebViewClient subclass to interface with Web page rendering; saving Web pages as Web archive files.

android.webkit.WebView - Web Browser Base Class

AndroidWeb - My Own Web Browser

WebViewClient Subclass - Content Rendering Callbacks

saveWebArchive() Method - Saving Web Archive Files

Web Archive File - XML File of Base64 Encoded Data

Takeaways:

android.webkit.WebView is a complex view class that allows you to build your own Web browser.
INTERNET permission is needed if the application needs to access Internet.
Callback methods can be implemented in a WebViewClient subclass to interface with the Web page rendering process.
saveWebArchive() method can be used to same the Web content into a Web archive file.
A Web archive file is an XML of Base64 encoded Web page resources.