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Elements in graphical user interfaces that host HTML content. For Android, look at the android-webview tag. For iOS, look under uiwebview or wkwebview. For VS Code, look under vscode-webview.

A user interface element that displays web pages. Generally, it is the basis upon which you can roll your own web browser or simply display some online content within your application.

: WebView class reference for Android

: WKWebView class reference for iOS

: UIWebView class reference for iOS (deprecated)

: Webview API for Visual Studio Code

: WebView that is used in Ionic

WebView class reference for macOS (deprecated)

webview tag reference for Chrome apps

WebView: a Node that displays WebEngine content.

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Android Webview - Completely Clear the Cache

I have a WebView in one of my Activities, and when it loads a webpage, the page gathers some background data from Facebook. What I'm seeing though, is the page displayed in the application is the same on each time the app is opened and…
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How can I display a pdf document into a Webview?

I want to display pdf contents on webview. Here is my code: WebView webview = new WebView(this); setContentView(webview); webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);…
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Android Webview - Webpage should fit the device screen

I have tried the following to fit the webpage based on the device screen size. mWebview.setInitialScale(30); and then set the metadata viewport
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Cannot display HTML string

I am struggling with display string HTML in Android WebView. On the server side, I downloaded a web page and escape HTML characters and quotes (I used Python): my_string = html.escape(my_string, True) On the Android client side: strings are…
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WebView and HTML5

I'm piecing together a cheapo app that amongst other things "frames" some of our websites... Pretty simple with the WebViewClient. until I hit the video. The video is done as HTML5 elements, and these work fine and dandy on Chrome, iPhones, and…
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NameNotFoundException webview

I am getting errors from Crashlytics that indicates that some devices are missing com.google.android.webview. How is that even possible? java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.myapp.app/com.myapp.ReaderActivity}:…
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dequeueBuffer: can't dequeue multiple buffers without setting the buffer count

I'm getting the error below on Android 4.4.2 Moto X 2013 in a Rhomobile 5.0.2 WebView app. The app is compiled with SDK 19 and minAPI 17. After some research it seems that this is an issue with Snapdragon 800 / Adreno GPU devices: here and here are…
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Android. WebView and loadData

It's possible to use following method for content's setting of a web-view loadData(String data, String mimeType, String encoding) How to handle the problem with unknown encoding of html data?! Is there a list of encodings?! I know from my college…
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How to force keyboard with numbers in mobile website in Android

I have a mobile website and it has some HTML input elements in it, like this: I have embedded the site into a WebView for possible Android 2.1 consumption, so that it will also be an Android…
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Android WebView not loading an HTTPS URL

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstance) { super.onCreate(savedInstance); setContentView(R.layout.show_voucher); webView=(WebView)findViewById(R.id.webview); webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true); …
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How to change font face of Webview in Android?

I want change the default font of webview to a custom font. I'm using webview in developing an bilingual browser app for Android. I tried getting an instance of custom typeface by placing my custom font in assets. But still couldn't set webview's…
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JavaScript not working in Android Webview?

I'm trying to make an Android version of a relativly simple iOS app that uses a webview, some buttons and then relies on javascript calls to a CMS. But I'm stuck at a pretty early point of development: The webview doesn't function with…
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detect ipad/iphone webview via javascript

Is there a way to detect with JavaScript if the website runs inside the iPad's Safari or inside an application WebView?
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Android Webview: "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'getItem' of null"

I am creating a simple android app which has a webview which should display a url. When I give the url as google.com or facebook.com it loads properly but when I give my url(qbo.intuit.com), it doesn't load and gives the "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot…
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Download file inside WebView

I have a webview in my Android Application. When user goes to webview and click a link to download a file nothing happens. URL = "my url"; mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview); mWebView.setWebViewClient(new…
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