Android WebView loadWithBaseURL

Question

I am wondering how do I set the path for WebViews loadWithBaseURL correctly.

What I want to do is, to load html in a webview, that uses resources that are stored on the external storage.

For Example:

<html>
<head>
<style>body{ background-image:url(beach.jpg); }</style> 
</head>
<body> 
<img src="football.jpg" />
</body>
</html>

Where beach.jpg and ball.jpg are stored directly in the "root" directory of the phones external storage (/sdcard/beach.jpg and /sdcard/ball.jpg)

So I tried to load the content as follows:

String html = "<html> ... example from above ... </html>";
String base = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath().toString();
webView.loadDataWithBaseURL("file://" + base, html, "text/html", "utf-8", null);

However the path seems to be wrong, because I can't see the image in the webview. Any suggestions?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '13 at 18:15

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Have you enabled file access on the webview?

webView.getSettings().setAllowFileAccess(true);

Additionally, if you are constructing the HTML yourself - you might consider using full paths for the images.

String html = "<html>... <img src=\"file://"+base+"/football.jpg\" />";

answered Feb 07 '13 at 18:15

NPike

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Damn, webView.getSettings().setAllowFileAccess(true); solved the problem ... Thank you! – sockeqwe Feb 08 '13 at 10:03

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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Have you give internet permission?

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

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edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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answered Feb 07 '13 at 18:04

ridoy

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Android WebView loadWithBaseURL

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