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Asked: 2026-06-14T19:05:33+00:00

How we can execute a javascript function and get a return value in our

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How we can execute a javascript function and get a return value in our android appplication ?

We want to execute a javascript on a button press event, we need to pass parameters to the script and get return values, So we are using “WebChromeClient” to implement this,
But we got Exception is “SyntaxError: Parse error at undefined:1”

Following is my code

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.webkit.JsResult;
import android.webkit.WebChromeClient;
import android.webkit.WebSettings;
import android.webkit.WebView;

public class FirstTab extends Activity 
{


    private WebView webView;

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
             setContentView(R.layout.regis);

            try{

                webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1);
                webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
                webView.setWebChromeClient(new MyWebChromeClient());
                String customHtml = "<html><head><title>iSales</title><script type=\"text/javascript\"> function fieldsOnDelete(){ var x=123; return \"JIJO\"; } </script></head><body>hi</body></html>";
                webView.loadData(customHtml, "text/html","UTF-8");  

                }catch(Exception e)
                {
                     Log.v("JAC LOG",e.toString());
                }

        }
    public void onResume()
    {
        super.onResume();

            final Button button = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
             button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
             public void onClick(View v) {
                 try{
                    webView.loadUrl("javascript:alert(javascript:fieldsOnDelete())");
                 }
                 catch(Exception e)
                 {
                     Log.v("JAC LOG",e.toString());

                 }
              } 
             });
    }


    final class MyWebChromeClient extends WebChromeClient {
        @Override
        public boolean onJsAlert(WebView view, String url, String message, JsResult result) {

        Log.v("LogTag", message);
          result.confirm();
          return true;
        }
    }


}
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  1. Editorial Team

    you can use mWebView.loadUrl("javascript:checkName"); to call the method…

    Then you can use addJavascriptInterface() to add a Java object to the Javascript environment. Have your Java script call a method on that Java object to supply its “return value”.

    EDIT1: Or you can use following hack:

    Add this Client to your WebView:

    final class MyWebChromeClient extends WebChromeClient {
        @Override
        public boolean onJsAlert(WebView view, String url, String message, JsResult result) {
            Log.d("LogTag", message);
            result.confirm();
            return true;
        }
    }

    Now in your java script call do:

    webView.loadUrl("javascript:alert(functionThatReturnsSomething)");

    Now in the onJsAlert call “message” will contain the returned value.

    Edit2:

    So it does not work if we call javascript method just after call to load the URL since the page loads take time. So I created a test program to test that…

    Following is my html file (named test.html) store in the assets folder:

    <html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
    function fieldsOnDelete(message) {
        alert("i am called with " + message);
        window.myjava.returnValue(message + " JIJO");
    }
</script>
<title>iSales android</title>


</head>
<body></body>
</html>
</body>
</html>

    Following is my java class that would get that i would add to java script as interface and it would receive the return value:

    public class MyJS {

    public void returnValue(String string){
        Log.d(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), string);
    }

}

    And following is my activity class:

    public class CheckWebView extends Activity {

    private WebView webView;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_check_web_view);
        webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);

        webView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() {
            @Override
            public void onConsoleMessage(String message, int lineNumber,
                    String sourceID) {
                super.onConsoleMessage(message, lineNumber, sourceID);
                Log.d(this.getClass().getCanonicalName(), "message " + message
                        + "   :::line number " + lineNumber + "   :::source id "
                        + sourceID);
            }

            @Override
            public boolean onConsoleMessage(ConsoleMessage consoleMessage) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                onConsoleMessage(consoleMessage.message(),
                        consoleMessage.lineNumber(), consoleMessage.sourceId());

                Log.d(this.getClass().getCanonicalName(), "message::::: "
                        + consoleMessage.message());

                return super.onConsoleMessage(consoleMessage);
            }
        });

        webView.addJavascriptInterface(new MyJS(), "myjava");
        webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        webView.getSettings().setPluginsEnabled(true);
        webView.getSettings().setAllowFileAccess(true);

        webView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/test.html");

    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_check_web_view, menu);
        return true;
    }

    /* (non-Javadoc)
     * @see android.app.Activity#onOptionsItemSelected(android.view.MenuItem)
     */
    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        webView.loadUrl("javascript:fieldsOnDelete('name');");
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

}

    The key here is that there should be some time interval between the call to load html file from assets folder and the call to javascript:method. Here I am calling it from onOptionsItemSelected and it is working fine.. if I move the webView.loadUrl("javascript:fieldsOnDelete('name');"); to the end of the onCreate() method the it shows the error that it can not find fieldsOnDelete() method…

    Hope it Helps…

    EDIT3:

    Replace following in your code

    webView.loadUrl("javascript:alert(javascript:fieldsOnDelete())");

    with

    webView.loadUrl("javascript:alert(fieldsOnDelete())");

    and try…

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