Referencing image in assets from HTML not working

Question

I'm trying to display an image in a WebView in an Android app. The image exists in the assets folder of my Android project. The HTML is programmatically built and has this image ref in it:

The HTML is loaded into the WebView using:

webView.loadDataWithBaseURL( urlStr, htmlText, "text/html", "utf-8", urlStr );

urlStr = a base url needed to find other resources. htmlText = the programmatically generate HTML

The WebView loads the HTML fine, but the image is displayed as "missing". I have verified that the image exists at that location in the assets. Nevertheless it does not appear in the WebView.

I have seen numerous postings and tutorials saying that this should work, but it doesn't for me. This is on a 3.2 Android tablet. Anyone know if this only works on some versions of Android? Any thoughts about why it doesn't work in my case? Thanks.

Answer 1

 webView.loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/", sourse, "text/html", "UTF-8", null);