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as3 display webview below objects

I was wondering if anybody knows a way or method to display on as3 a webview external html page to the back of a display abject?
here is my code
import flash.filesystem.FileMode;
import flash.filesystem.FileStream;
import flash.filesystem.File;
var fPath:String = "http://mysite.com/demo.php";
var webView = new StageWebView();
webView.stage = stage;
webView.viewPort = new Rectangle(15, 283, 340, 327);
webView.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
webView.loadURL( fPath );
function onComplete(event:Event):void{
trace("event = ", event);
trace("event.target = ", event.target);
}

StageWebView is always on top of the display list. There is a work around where you can draw it to BitmapData object and then display that in a Bitmap in the back of the display list using drawViewPortToBitmapData
Obviously the drawn version is not interactive.
hth.

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I am new to Android. I am developing an application that requires a user signature. How can I capture a signature in Android?

Your question is a little too broad. Try asking a question about a specific problem, not "how do I do something general". See the FAQ for more information about how to ask a question.
Here is a vague idea though:
You'll want to have a canvas object that can allow the user to draw to the screen. Here is a link on SO about it. Android drawing a line to follow your finger
Then you'll want to output that bitmap as a file: Save bitmap to location

You can do this in two ways:
1. Your own Implementation
You can use canvas to draw signatures. Use paint object to set signature stroke size & color.
2. Simply use library
See SignatureView library. It will do all, what you want.
https://github.com/zahid-ali-shah/SignatureView

Here's how I have capture human signature and save image using this example:
https://demonuts.com/android-capture-digital-signature/
First add following to your gradle:
repositories {
jcenter()
}
repositories {
maven {
url 'https://dl.bintray.com/zahid/maven/'
}
}
dependencies {
compile 'com.kyanogen.signatureview:signature-view:1.0'
}
activity_main.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
tools:context="com.example.parsaniahardik.signaturedemo.MainActivity">
<com.kyanogen.signatureview.SignatureView
xmlns:sign="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:id="#+id/signature_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1"
sign:penSize="5dp"
sign:backgroundColor="#ffffff"
sign:penColor="#000000"
sign:enableSignature="true"/>
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/clear"
android:text="clear"/>
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/save"
android:text="save"/>
</LinearLayout>
MainActivity.java:
package com.example.parsaniahardik.signaturedemo;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.media.MediaScannerConnection;
import android.os.Environment;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import com.kyanogen.signatureview.SignatureView;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Calendar;
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
Bitmap bitmap;
Button clear,save;
SignatureView signatureView;
String path;
private static final String IMAGE_DIRECTORY = "/signdemo";
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
signatureView = (SignatureView) findViewById(R.id.signature_view);
clear = (Button) findViewById(R.id.clear);
save = (Button) findViewById(R.id.save);
clear.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
signatureView.clearCanvas();
}
});
save.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
bitmap = signatureView.getSignatureBitmap();
path = saveImage(bitmap);
}
});
}
public String saveImage(Bitmap myBitmap) {
ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
myBitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 90, bytes);
File wallpaperDirectory = new File(
Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + IMAGE_DIRECTORY /*iDyme folder*/);
// have the object build the directory structure, if needed.
if (!wallpaperDirectory.exists()) {
wallpaperDirectory.mkdirs();
Log.d("hhhhh",wallpaperDirectory.toString());
}
try {
File f = new File(wallpaperDirectory, Calendar.getInstance()
.getTimeInMillis() + ".jpg");
f.createNewFile();
FileOutputStream fo = new FileOutputStream(f);
fo.write(bytes.toByteArray());
MediaScannerConnection.scanFile(MainActivity.this,
new String[]{f.getPath()},
new String[]{"image/jpeg"}, null);
fo.close();
Log.d("TAG", "File Saved::--->" + f.getAbsolutePath());
return f.getAbsolutePath();
} catch (IOException e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
}
return "";
}
}
Don't forget to give READ-WRITE permission in manifest.xml
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>

Many applications ask their users to accept an agreement, but I can't think of one I've used that's asked me for my actual signature.
Is there a good reason that your users aren't able to accept yr agreement in the usual way? (via a check box or by hitting a button marked 'I accept'?)
Why is a graphical representation of the users signature required?
It's difficult to write using a finger, and it's even more difficult to
write (using a finger) on a smart phone screen.
There are also privacy concerns relating to obtaining a graphical representation of a user's signature. Once obtained, I have no idea what your company will do with my signature. A signature is a valuable piece of personal information, which could ultimately be used for identity theft.

how to display a html page with image in android?

hi i want to display my html image on android emulator, please help
package com.Htmlview;
import ja va.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.text.MessageFormat;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.res.AssetManager;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.WebView;
public class Htmlview extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
//setContentView(R.layout.main);
WebView webview = new WebView(this);
setContentView(webview);
try {
String imageString="<html><body>" +
"<h2>Norwegian Mountain Trip</h2>" +
"<img src=\"C:/Users/Public/Pictures/Sample Pictures/pulpit.jpg\" alt=\"Pulpit rock\" width=\"304\" height=\"228\" /></body></html>";
AssetManager mgr = this.getAssets();
InputStream is = mgr.open("index3.html");
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(is); // read the contents of the file
webview.loadData(MessageFormat.format(imageString,arguments),"text/html", "UTF-8");
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

You're never going to be able to access something on your workstation's hard drive from within Android. What you want to do is put the image into the assets folder in your Android app (which will then get bundled into the app) and link to it appropriately with file:///android_assets/. There are other ways of dealing with the issue, but that is the simplest.

Retrieve data from sqlite database and display in assest folder's HTML page in android

I want to make a dynamic webpage that can display my sqlite database's element in tabular format. How can I create a dynamic webpage in android?
I make a static HTML page and put in assest folder. It works but now I want a dynamic webpage. Please help:
package com.Htmlview;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.WebView;
public class Htmlview extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
//setContentView(R.layout.main);
WebView webview = new WebView(this);
setContentView(webview);
try {
InputStream fin = getAssets().open("index3.html");
byte[] buffer = new byte[fin.available()];
fin.read(buffer);
fin.close();
webview.loadData(new String(buffer), "text/html", "UTF-8");
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
This page works ...
Help to make it dynamic through code.
gaurav gupta

Use java.text.MessageFormat:
Put "{0}" markers in your html file.
Read your html file into a string
Create an arguments array from the database record
Call MessageFormat.format(htmlString, dbArgs)
Load the resulting string into the webview.

You can't modify the asset folder in runtime as it compiled at build time. So, you have 2 variants:
You content from database as it is. Just read the bytes and pass them to the webview without storing to anywhere.
Store the content to the file in internal memory and do like you did it with assets. But there is no sence as you already have your data in db.

Android : Reading XML from local resource (for testing)

I'm writing an app which will read XML from a webservice (probably via kSOAP2). I'm fairly happy with SAX parsing, as I've done XML parsing iPhone apps.
Unfortunately the webservice isn't public yet so for initial testing I have some files containing the XML I need to parse. In this early dev phase I just need to read the XML from the files and pass it into the XML parser
Xml.parse(this.testXML, root.getContentHandler());
How do I read the XML from a file/resource into a string to pass into this method. I want to crack on and test the parser, but this simple step is holding me up.
Thanks

Create a raw folder under res
Put your XML file in there, eg. testXML.xml:
/res/raw/testXML.xml
You should be able to use your XML parser using that as an inputstream:
Xml.parse(getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.testXML), Xml.Encoding.UTF_8, root.getContentHandler());
Try that.

I found a solution. Using Assets.
Here is the simple code example of how I did it.
I know I could have used XmlPullParser to simply load an xml file from res, but I wanted to use SAX parsing. This allows me to simply throw an XML string into the SAX parser for testing before I plug in the webservice.
It just uses a simple view with a Button to kick off the file load and a TextView to display the XML for now. I can get on with my parser :)
package com.martins.XmlParserTest
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.res.AssetManager;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.TextView;
public class Main extends Activity {
Button btn;
TextView tvXml;
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
Button btn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
btn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// Load XML for parsing.
AssetManager assetManager = getAssets();
InputStream inputStream = null;
try {
inputStream = assetManager.open("textxml.xml");
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.e("tag", e.getMessage());
}
String s = readTextFile(inputStream);
TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);
tv.setText(s);
}
});
}
private String readTextFile(InputStream inputStream) {
ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
byte buf[] = new byte[1024];
int len;
try {
while ((len = inputStream.read(buf)) != -1) {
outputStream.write(buf, 0, len);
}
outputStream.close();
inputStream.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
}
return outputStream.toString();
}
}

Raises exception due to incorrectly formed XML (line1,Pos0).
You tell parser that the encoding is UTF-8 and if it isn't you may get various errors (depending on parsers). If you are using non-xml editor to edit your XML it may save the file in a different encoding regardless what you declared it to be in the XML document.