Loading local .HTML-file with WebView

android html webview

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Change file:///assets/hello.html to file:///android_asset/hello.html. This assumes that your HTML file is located at assets/hello.html in your project.

Also, move your <h1> element into the <body>, so that it will actually work.

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David

Updated on June 28, 2022

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David almost 2 years

I've read many descriptions on how to make this work, but it doesn't in my emulator, which is really frustrating. Should be piece of cake!

I made a supersimple html-file:

 <html>

    <head>
<h1> Hello </h1>

    </head>

    <body>
    </body>


</html>

And then I use this java code to implement it:

    package com.path.path;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.WebView;



public class hello extends Activity {

WebView webView;

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.hello);



     String url =  "file:///assets/hello.html";
    webView = (WebView) this.findViewById(R.id.char_view);
    webView.loadUrl(url);


}

}

When I load this page in the emulator it says the page is not available. What am I missing??

Thanks!

David over 10 years

It was as easy as that, been stuck with this silly issue all day! Thank you CommonsWare, I would vote up your Answer if I had those 15 rep..
Ryan Langton over 10 years

David you don't have to up vote, this should be selected as the answer