Question

Good evening,

I have a quick question that should be pretty easy, but for the life of me I cannot figure it out.

I have a link to a web page that I want to put in my app. I want to do it in XML in order to make things a little easier for me because this will be a quite large app. I want the like to be custom text that when clicked opens up the web browser. I guess just like you can with HTML. Right now I have

android:text="http://bhflc.org/"
android:autoLink="web"

I understand that the text part is where my custom text needs to be, but where would I put the web address?

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

IDEA:

You need a custom web view class . In this web view you can get attribute values which you set from xml file.

CODE:

Your webview class

    YourWebView extends WebView{
    public YourWebView (Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
       //get attribute values which you set from xml file.
       TypedArray a=mContext.obtainStyledAttributes(attrSet, R.styleable.YourView);
       final String url=a.getString( R.styleable.YourView_web_url);
       yourWebView.mWebView.loadUrl(url);

}

Your XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<yourpackagenamspace.yourView
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
    app:web_url="http://bhflc.org/" 
     />

You must declare your attributes with values/attrs.xml file

<declare-styleable name="YourView">

        <attr name="web_url" format="string" />

    </declare-styleable>