Loading local html file in webView android

Question

I have to load an existing html file into a WebView that is located at this path in the file system:

/data/data/com.example.example/files/file.html

But, when the WebView loads it, I don't see anything. Who can help me?

WebView code (assuming path is the path I've written above):

 WebView webView = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView1);

  File htmlFile = new File(path);
    if(htmlFile.exists())
    {
        webView.loadUrl(htmlFile.getAbsolutePath());

    }

Does htmlFile.exists() return true? If so what do you see in logcat? — Greg Ennis, Jan 01 '14 at 22:27
htmlFile.exists() always return true... i tried to put a log into the if and the logcat show that log... — donadev, Jan 02 '14 at 10:54

score 53 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 01 '14 at 22:28

Try this, adding in a file:/// and doing it a little differently:

WebView webView = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView1);
webview.loadUrl("file:///data/data/com.example.example/files/file.html");

Instead of this, however, you could just put the file into your assets folder in the source code, and then do this:

WebView webView = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView1);
webview.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/file.html");

score 30 · Answer 2 · answered May 07 '15 at 13:20

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The html file should be placed in the assets folder, which will belong in the root directory of your project.

So move your file to in case of eclipse

assets/index.html

In an Android Studio project use this folder:

/app/src/main/assets/index.html

Now use

WebView wv= (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView1);
wv.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/index.html");

answered May 07 '15 at 13:20

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in my project there is not folder with the name android_asset – Shahid Karimi May 07 '16 at 10:48
then create the assets folder – Nauman Ash May 27 '16 at 12:40

score 7 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 02 '14 at 04:36

You need to implement a ContentProvider to map local files to uris as explained in this link how to display a local file into Android Webview

or you just load any html page from Assets folder like below:

 WebView wv= (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView1);
 wv.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/yourfile.html");
 wv.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited May 16 '21 at 21:33

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Try this:

web = (Webview) findViewById(R.id.webview);
web.setWebClient(new WebViewClient());
web.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
web.getSettings().setAllowFileAccess(true);
web.getSettings().setAllowFileAccessFromFileURLs(true);

edited May 16 '21 at 21:33

Dave2e

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answered May 16 '21 at 18:20

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