WebView.capturePicture failing with url parameters - android

[Android Newbie alert]
I need to capture the contents of a WebView in a BitMap and I've run into a strange problem. My approach is to register a WebViewClient with the WebView, and in onPageFinished I call capturePicture. With a simple URL (e.g. http://www.yahoo.com), it works fine. In other cases, capturePicture returns a Picture with height and width values = 0. The page loads fine, either way. The actual url I have to use has quite a few url parameters and I initially thought having any parameters was the problem, but that's not the case. Here's a few sample urls with comments indicating whether it works or not:
w.loadUrl("http://www.yahoo.com"); //yes
w.loadUrl("http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=android"); // usually not???
w.loadUrl("http://www.yahoo.com?foo=bar"); // nope
w.loadUrl("http://www.google.com"); // yep
w.loadUrl("http://www.google.com?q=android"); // yep
w.loadUrl("http://www.google.com?foo=bar"); // yes
The second case is particularly frustrating as it appears to not work. However, if I run the test app with #5 first, then switching the url to #2 and running it then works.
Here's a snippet of an actual simplified test I created:
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
w = new WebView(this);
w.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
public void onPageFinished(WebView webview, String url) {
Picture picture = webview.capturePicture();
Log.d("Height", "" + picture.getHeight());
Log.d("Width", "" + picture.getWidth());
Bitmap b = Bitmap.createBitmap(picture.getWidth(), picture
.getHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
Canvas c = new Canvas(b);
picture.draw(c);
}
});
w.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
setContentView(w);
//w.loadUrl("http://www.yahoo.com"); //yes
w.loadUrl("http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=android"); // usually not???
//w.loadUrl("http://www.yahoo.com?foo=bar"); // nope
//w.loadUrl("http://www.google.com"); // yep
//w.loadUrl("http://www.google.com?q=android"); // yep
//w.loadUrl("http://www.google.com?foo=bar"); // yes
}
Has anyone run into this issue? Hopefully I'm just being an idiot and there's a simple solution or workaround?

I just visited the documentation page again.
[here][1]
"Notify the host application that a page has finished loading. This method is called only for main frame. When onPageFinished() is called, the rendering picture may not be updated yet. To get the notification for the new Picture, use onNewPicture(WebView, Picture)."
Used Picture Listener, I tried with your sample and it works.
Hope this helps.
I just added below code to your example and removed WebViewClient
w.setPictureListener(new PictureListener(){
public void onNewPicture(WebView view, Picture picture) {
Log.d(TAG, "onNewPicture- Height"+ picture.getHeight());
Log.d(TAG, "onNewPicture- Width"+ picture.getWidth());
}
});
[1]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebViewClient.html#onPageFinished(android.webkit.WebView, java.lang.String)

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I need to override the shouldInterceptRequest method of WebViewClient to load in-app HTML content following that guide.
Here's the repo with the reproducible code: GitHub. I took a sample code from MS Q&A as well:
// ...
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// ...
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In the repo, I included 2 custom handlers:
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}
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{
Debugger.Break();
Debug.WriteLine(url);
base.OnPageFinished(view, url);
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{
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Can you try what the default WebViewHandler is doing:
protected override WebView CreatePlatformView()
{
var platformView = new MauiWebView(this, Context!)
{
LayoutParameters = new LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MatchParent, LayoutParams.MatchParent)
};
platformView.Settings.JavaScriptEnabled = true;
platformView.Settings.DomStorageEnabled = true;
platformView.Settings.SetSupportMultipleWindows(true);
return platformView;
}
Check this URL for the default handlers CreatePlatform setup :
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Yes, it is the case as you said.
And I have created a new issue for this problem, you can follow it up here: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/11004.
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Best Regards.

how to delete an element in xamarin forms webview

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In order to prevent this, you can subscribe to OnNavigated Event:
WebView.Navigated Event
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So, here is a sample:
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previous navigations. The next draw will display either the
WebView#setBackgroundColor of the WebView, or some of the contents of
the newly loaded page.
This method is called when the body of the HTTP response has started
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as such you should expect that linked resources (for example, CSS and
images) may not be available.
You can try the following code:
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{
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WebView not working consistently

Edit: Strangely works when duplicating the loadUrl() line
I'm working with WebViews to gather data from a webpage. Sometimes, the webview just does nothing. I tried many proposes, but actually, none of them works....
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checkLogin()
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}
});
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returnNewWebView()
private WebView returnNewWebView(Context context, Boolean JSInterface) {
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What can I do that it works in every single case?
I would appreciate any tip!
Thank you very much in advance
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I have gone through the full code for so long and pointed out this :
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in your checkLogin() method which is simply wrong as because one webview can not display the two urls at same time (as you mentioned it you want to achieve that).
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Threads or some sessionTimeout methods.
OR
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Then in this function get the url and set the text of your input element:
function manageLinks(event) {
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//go up the family tree until we find the A tag
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The Google documentation says this:
public void onPageFinished (WebView view, String url)
Added in API level 1
Notify the host application that a page has finished loading. This method is called only for main frame. When onPageFinished() is called, the rendering picture may not be updated yet. To get the notification for the new Picture, use onNewPicture(WebView, Picture).
Parameters
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url The url of the page.
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...
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}
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I can not, however, find any official documentation that states that.

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