Question

I have went through countless examples of webview with buttons and can’t get any of them to show my buttons.

Below is my last layout and it looks correct in eclipse but the website goes full screen when run on the phone.

Any help would be great!

Kind Regards,

Mike

Answer 1

You need to have a parent element to encompass the two separate child elements WebView and LinearLayout

have a go with the resources on Android Developers: http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-linearlayout.html

It should look something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >
<WebView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
         android:id="@+id/webview"
         android:layout_width="fill_parent"
         android:layout_height="380px"
/>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:layout_width="wrap_content"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:orientation="horizontal" 
              android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal">

    <Button android:id="@+id/back"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Back" 
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"/>

    <Button android:id="@+id/next"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Next" 
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"/>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>