Question

I have a section on my Android app called ‘More Information’ which is basically a few pages of Html scripts which I display using WebView with the following code –

InputStream fin = getAssets().open(htmlFl + ".html");
                 byte[] buffer = new byte[fin.available()];
                 fin.read(buffer);
                 fin.close();
                 webview.loadData(new String(buffer), "text/html", "UTF-8");

It all works fine except that the images are not appearing on any of the pages. I declare them using Html like the following –

<P><IMG SRC="http://www.OurWeb.co.uk/images/Icon.jpg">&  
nbsp;<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">
<B>Opening Times During Exhibition</B></SPAN></P>

Am I doing anything wrong using the WebView and if not is there a way around this?

Answer 1

You probably forgot to add INTERNET permission in your manifest:

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

The WebView javadoc says:

Note that, in order for your Activity to access the Internet and load web pages in a WebView, you must add the INTERNET permissions to your Android Manifest file: