i have a problem that is when i open a site like facebook.com in iframe in my phonegap app don't open because x-frame-option.
my question is can i disable checking x-frame-option from java code of cordova webview ?
or use another webview in the same activity one it top and on at down and change the url of webview ?
i'm not good on phonegap and not good in android please help me :D
Thanks all
I found the great solution in this amazing plugin
https://github.com/Wizcorp/phonegap-plugin-wizViewManager
you can add a webview to android and ios and select it position it's really great.
I would assume it isn't possible to allow it on Cordova because it is up to web view of device to handle. What you probably could do is to first download the HTML for some page with AJAX query, strip the
<meta http-equiv="X-Frame-Options" content="DENY" />
of from there and then inject the whole content into iframe. Of course this only works for single page but if that is SPA (single-page application), it might even be enough.
i want to write an AccessibilityService which should help the user to fill forms. I saw the possibility to call Javascript code via WebView.loadUrl(). But since i've just the AccessibilityNodeInfo i only see that the WebView is on the screen.
After some research, i saw that TalkBackService is able to inject Javascript, and in a different post (Alternative way for communication between WebView and native) i saw its possible if i have a reference to the WebView-object.
Is there a way to execute JavaScript via such an Message or an Broadcast Intent in chromes WebView?
Would be really great if someone could help me!
Thanks a lot!
Chrome doesn't use a WebView, Chrome uses it's own rendering engine. While some of the code ends up being shared with the WebView (as in the two end up being compiled from the same source code) that's where the similarity ends.
I don't think there is a way to inject JavaScript into Chrome via an Intent - that would be a pretty big security hole (otherwise someone could inject a "send me all your money" JavaScript into your bank's page).
Accessibility is not my area of expertise so I can be totally off here but I believe newer versions of Chrome expose the web contents structure to the accessibility layer and therefore you should be able to do your thing without any custom JavaScript. I think you can check this using uiautomatorviewer: for me the tool shows html forms when I grab a dump of Chrome's UI. Is that not the case for you?
I have a code in my application to open a browser.
Sometimes I need to tell the browser to load another URL after a few seconds.
Is there a way to make the first browser to change the URL or I need to open a new one always?
Thanks,
Simon
The best way to achieve this would probably be to embed a WebView in your application, and then you can control it directly. Otherwise, as far as I know, you can't control a browser opened up via Intents. I could be wrong about that, but embedding a WebView and controlling it directly seems much more straightforward.
The WebView class reference:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html
Some notes on the WebView (less pertinent to what you're doing [this article pertains to writing HTML/native hybrid apps], but may have some useful information):
http://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/webview.html
I just noticed that one of the things that keep working in browsers on PC, does not work on an Android browser.
I want to POST a form to a hidden iframe. This is basically to initiate a file download after verifying user credentials.
<form method="post" action='/downloader.php' target="hiddenframe">
....
......
...
<input type="submit" value="Download">
</form>
<iframe name="hiddenframe" style="display:none;"></iframe>
This doesn't work on Android browsers. I suppose I should be concerned of the iframe. What should I take care of or what alternatives I have to make this work?
Thank you for any insight.
check this notes about using iframe in Android:
dose apple and Android Browsers support Iframe??
I hope this helps you.
I don't know how Android handles frames, plus different Android roms use different browsers.
What I do know is that as of HTML5 frames are deprecated, therefore not a very good practise. If not anything you are going to have more and more compatibility issues with new browsers in the future.
Why don't you do the request on the same page? If the downloader.php has the proper headers the download process should start without breaking or changing the current page at all.
We have a website that offers an e-mail service. We would like to create a fully fledged app for this but cannot afford this right now. In the mean time it would be great if we could give users an icon on their phones that will take them to a page formatted for mobile on the internet. So what I'd like to know is how can we get an icon on an android users phone that will simply launch a web link in a browser- does this have to be an app, is there an easier way, or am I over estimating how complicated it would be to make this as an app anyway?
Thanks in advance
Create a new Android project (after following the SDK installation steps provided at http://developer.android.com)
on the directory /res/drawable-*dpi you have the laucher icons. Modify all of them.
In the main activity, delete all inside the onCreate method an put this:
String url = "http://www.YOUR-URL.com";
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(i);
This will open the android browser with the URL provided.
I have done projects like this in the past, it is very simple. You need to create a website formatted for a smaller screen. Once you do this, building an android app that displays your website inside it is simple. You can even remove all of the android browser toolbars so it appears as if your website is a real android application. Google android webviews, this will point you in the right direction.
See here for what's probably the best instruction page on how to do exactly that:
http://intelnav.50webs.com/app_project.html
It's based on a Webview, that is it opens the page and does all the navigation in the app window, not in the default browser. So if you want to open it in the browser, you have to use Intent, as said in previous answers.
My 2 pennies worth, I think it's better in the app window unless you really want complex navigation with the possibility of opening additional tabs, windows and so on. The drawback with the external browser is that, as far as I could see, there's no way to tell if the page is already open in the browser so you'll launch a different copy (in a new tab) every time. If the user doesn't close the tab at the end, they usually don't, it can become quite annoying. Besides, within an app you'll probably have somewhat better possibilities for ads should you ever want them.
Versus a simple home-screen bookmark, as others pointed out, it's simpler and more convenient for end users to just download an app from an online store (usually Google Play). It's what they're used to do. And they do have a lot of additional info available, like what it does, what others say about it, screen shots (if you provide some for them but you should). Plus a way to comment / complain themselves. It's a different thing. Technically it may not make a lot of sense but from a simple user's perspective it's clearly better IMO.
One way is to bookmark the site and then add it to your home screen. Source
It seems to me like you need a mobile version of your web page. Do you have that already? Once you have your mobile website (ie. website optimized for mobile devices), you could create a simple application with only one WebView. All content would be fetched from your site and displayed inside a webview. This is trivial to make, however, making an entire mobile website will take some time.
Note that you do not HAVE TO have a mobile website, you could pack you existing website into a WebView, but this would lower user experience.
you would build an app that launches a browser intent linking to your website, or a custom WebView to launch your website in full screen without any navigation bar etc..
The only easier way is to put instructions on your site (directly, or as a contextual pop-up) on how to add the bookmark as an icon on your home screen. This can be slightly more complicated on Android, and depends on the browser. A simpler option for your potential users is to provide a wrapper app via the Marketplace.
It is not overly complicated to create a simple wrapper Android app in Java that launches the browser, using Intents. The essential browser launch code is basically this:
Uri uriUrl = Uri.parse("http://www.yourwebpage.com");
Intent launchBrowser = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uriUrl);
startActivity(launchBrowser);
A more detailed tutorial for creating this is available here:
http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/launch-android-browser/
Try this kick-start mobile device app for showing websites. Written with cordova for platforms like android, ios, browser and so on: https://github.com/jetedonner/ch.kimhauser.cordova.kickstartwebsite (GooglePlay: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.kimhauser.cordova.kickstartwebsite, Website: http://kimhauser.ch/index.php/projects/cordova-phonegap/kick-start-website)