Android webview tutorial aide ide

Tutorial on how to create webview in aide ide, before creating webview you must to know what is webview.

WebView is a view that display web pages inside your application. You can also specify HTML string and can show it inside your application using WebView. WebView makes turns your application to a web application.

First goto your "AndroidManifest.xml"  and add this two permission, this permission is very important.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

Next goto your "main.xml"  located res/layout and add this webview code layout.

<WebView
 android:layout_width="match_parent"
 android:layout_height="match_parent"
 android:id="@+id/webView"/>


Last step, goto your  "MainActivity.java" located at your java folder and add this following codes:

import android.webkit.*;

private WebView webView;

webView=(WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView); webView.getSettings().setLoadsImagesAutomatically(true); webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true); webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically(true);
webView.loadUrl("http://yourwebsite.com");

if you have problem adding codes? follow my screenshot below.

Enable download in android webview

Add a new two permission in "AndroidManifest.xml" this permission allow your created app to save files in your device.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />

In your "MainActivity.java" add this following codes for download.

webView.setDownloadListener(new DownloadListener()
{

@Override
public void onDownloadStart(String url, String userAgent,
String contentDisposition, String mimeType,
long contentLength) {

DownloadManager.Request request = new DownloadManager.Request(
Uri.parse(url));

request.setMimeType(mimeType);
String cookies = CookieManager.getInstance().getCookie(url);
request.addRequestHeader("cookie", cookies);
request.addRequestHeader("User-Agent", userAgent);
request.setDescription("Downloading file...");
request.setTitle(URLUtil.guessFileName(url, contentDisposition,
   mimeType));

request.allowScanningByMediaScanner();
request.setNotificationVisibility(DownloadManager.Request.VISIBILITY_VISIBLE_NOTIFY_COMPLETED);
request.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(
Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS, URLUtil.guessFileName(
url, contentDisposition, mimeType));
DownloadManager dm = (DownloadManager) getSystemService(DOWNLOAD_SERVICE);
dm.enqueue(request);
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Downloading File",
   Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}});

Note for higher version of android you need to add this following code:

if (checkSelfPermission(android.Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE) == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
Log.e("Permission error","You have permission");

}else{
ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this, new String[]{Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE}, REQUEST_CODE);
}


Done.
For more webview code please visit Android webview settings and more tutorials aide ide