create custom browser for android

Question

I'm developing a browser for android. I simply need to create one search editbox with a history button.

When the user clicks 'history' button, up to five recent visited webpages should be presented.

I don't know where to start... Because I have no idea on how to do this...

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '11 at 10:46

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You don't need a custom browser for that. You can embed a WebView in your app.

In this, you can get last 5 pages from History using JavaScript and display those URLs.

answered Mar 15 '11 at 10:46

Shamit Verma

.Thanks for ur quick reply..But is there any api available to get the history details.? – sanjay Mar 15 '11 at 10:50

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 15 '11 at 10:43

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You should check WebView in android

If you want to customize it , extend webview class and you can go ahead from there.

answered Mar 15 '11 at 10:43

sat

thanks for ur reply..But i just wanna know how to retrieve last 5 visited web pages?& even when i click any one i've to go to that page.. – sanjay Mar 15 '11 at 10:53
For that you will have to use Content providers of Browser , some examples suggests that you have to use bookmark content provider and extract bookmarks http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2577084/android-read-browser-history . This might help you. Once you get bookmarked url , its easy to launch that website using loadUrl API of webview. – sat Mar 15 '11 at 10:58

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