Android webview location detect javascript

Question

I have a web page in which location is getting detected in web browser successfully. And based on location my results are filtered out. I am running same website url in a webview of android app. But in android app that location detection javascript is not working. Any suggestions what to do here?

Thanks in advance.

have you enabled javascript for the webview? – Sudarshan Bhat Feb 24 '12 at 07:01 — Sudarshan Bhat, Feb 24 '12 at 07:01

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

Doing the above still didn't work for me, but adding some additional code did - see Android Webview Geolocation

I added the following to my webview object

    // enable geolocationEnabled
    webview.getSettings().setGeolocationEnabled(true);

    // enable JavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically, not sure if this is needed
    webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically(true);

    // set setWebChromeClient
    webview.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() {
        public void onGeolocationPermissionsShowPrompt(String origin, android.webkit.GeolocationPermissions.Callback callback) {
            callback.invoke(origin, true, false);
        }
    });

For some reason android.webkit.GeolocationPermissions.Callback had to be a fully qualify className, after adding it as an import it was still not recognized by the Eclipse IDE.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 24 '12 at 07:03

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You should enable javascript for webview.

To do that,

wv = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.web_view);
wv.getSettings().setJavascriptEnabled(true);

answered Feb 24 '12 at 07:03

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 24 '12 at 07:05

Just one question: Does the location detection JS work in the Android Browser (not in the Android WebView)?

One thing to try is add the following to your manifest file:

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

The second is to setJavaScriptEnabled(true) in your webview. I just noticed someone answered this below.

Read more here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/location/obtaining-user-location.html

Android webview location detect javascript

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