A Web Browser App in Android

This article demonstrates creating a Browser App in Android-Introduction



Sometimes we need to display some online content in our Android App. It would be very helpful if we could use a control that displays such online content directly in our app. The WebView control provides this functionality to our Android app. It enables us to embed a web browser in our activity.



Using the WebView control we can display online content as well as any HTML page stored in our project.

Background



In this article, I have used an EditView control to accept the URL of a web page or a local page. A WebView control is added to render the page on the device. Pressing the GO button after entering the URL will cause the page to be displayed on the WebView control.

Using the code



In order for our activity to access the internet and load web pages in the WebView, we need to specify the Internet permission for our app in the AndroidManifest.xml file as follows:

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



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