This article outlines your speculation about stock browser differences between manufacturers, that absolutely is true: 5 reality checks every team needs before working on Android webkit …which does cause trouble and mysterious/difficult to diagnose/solve problems. As far as your issues with your WebView implementation: Version of jquery-mobile may be an issue jquery-mobile loaded into an … Read more
Finally, I solved this problem for Android 2.3 devices. It is not possible to really remove the overlay, but it is possible to move the overlay outside the viewport. The overlay tries to position itself to the same position as the input field. It copies the width and the position offset which you assign with … Read more
var navU = navigator.userAgent; // Android Mobile var isAndroidMobile = navU.indexOf(‘Android’) > -1 && navU.indexOf(‘Mozilla/5.0’) > -1 && navU.indexOf(‘AppleWebKit’) > -1; // Apple webkit var regExAppleWebKit = new RegExp(/AppleWebKit\/([\d.]+)/); var resultAppleWebKitRegEx = regExAppleWebKit.exec(navU); var appleWebKitVersion = (resultAppleWebKitRegEx === null ? null : parseFloat(regExAppleWebKit.exec(navU)[1])); // Chrome var regExChrome = new RegExp(/Chrome\/([\d.]+)/); var resultChromeRegEx = regExChrome.exec(navU); var … Read more
One option is weinre. It provides DOM & Style editing along with the console. If you don’t want to set it up yourself, there is an instance hosted at http://debug.phonegap.com The other option is JSHybugger. It’s certainly the most complete debugging environment available for android browser. It’s a paid product, but probably worth it.
I had to do the same thing today and I have found a very useful answer on StackOverflow that I want to share here in case someone else needs it. Source (from sven) webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient(){ public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) { if (url != null && (url.startsWith(“http://”) || url.startsWith(“https://”))) { view.getContext().startActivity( new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url))); … Read more
Try this: Intent browserIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(“http://www.google.com”)); startActivity(browserIntent); That works fine for me. As for the missing “http://” I’d just do something like this: if (!url.startsWith(“http://”) && !url.startsWith(“https://”)) url = “http://” + url; I would also probably pre-populate your EditText that the user is typing a URL in with “http://”.