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());      } 

Answer 1

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"); 

Answer 2

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");