how to display javascript popup in android webview

Question

Is it possible to open a javascript popup window on a android webviewer coded like this example from google? and if yes how? I dont want that the original page in the background is closed it has to be a popup like on the picture.

Building Web Apps link

Solution 1

See answers to this question:

JavaScript alert not working in Android WebView

The answer from Stephen Quan is to just set the default webChromeClient

mWebView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient());

Solution 2

You can allow javascript and opening windows from javascript in a webview. Just set this settings

webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically(true);

Be careful though because enabling javascript on your app webview can bring some serious security issues

check this links

From StackOverflow

Interesting Presentacion

and this one for webviews

Official Android WebView Link

Comments

[user3235860]

I tried that already but it's not working. Do i need special permissions or something like that?

[klifa]

you do need to add this permission but not javascript related <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

[klifa]

If you want to run native javascript code, you better check this official android link about web views LINK Start reading where it says "Enabling Javascript in WebView"

[klifa]

And one more thing, the link in your post is broken