How to show Android Google default search results in webview?

Question

I want to display default Google search Results in webview of my Android application. We can do it using Google Custom Search API but it is paid. I want to use Google default search engine to replace the API. Could you please help me to provide its implementation.

Thanks in Advance

Answer 1

If I get your question correct, you want to enable the user to enter a search term and then get google results in the webview. If you carefully notice, then in your browser if you enter following URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=query_string, then you will get results for your query of query_string.

So, for your purpose:

Step 1 You can have an EditText and a Button.

Step 2 On Button click you can get the text from an EditText

Step 3 Then Create a URL from the query string that you received from EditText as follows:

String query; // Get the text from EditText here
String url = "https://www.google.com/search?q="+query;

Step 4: Then using that URL you can display the URL result in webview.

The results would be displayed there. There are many thread which will help you achieve this. Some are:

How to get text from EditText?

1) How to get text from EditText?

How to display URL in webview?

1) Trying to display url in Web View

2) To View a web page inside your app?

Your only task is to create the URL and then display is using webview.

Hope it helps. All the best.

Answer 2

Before loading your search query URL into webView, must enable javascript so that it may behave properly and will not ask to open in the default browser.

String url = "https://www.google.com/search?q="+editText.getText();
webView1.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

webView1.loadUrl(url);

Cheers