open local html file with urloader?

keszegh

Is it possible to put a html file in some folder in the app and load it with application:urlloader? if yes, then how should i do it? where to put the file in the gideros/eclipse project and what is the exact way to load it? (on android mainly) i need this as the help section in my app is starting to be overwhelming and opening an url would be simplest (no need to implement scrolling etc, easier to maintain), but i want it to work without internet (and without having a server) so i want to open a local html file.

ar2rsawseen

@keszegh in the Labs, there is a Native UI plugin on Android, there is a Webview class allowing you to display webview with web contents and even execute some javascript, but I have not tried it with local pages.

Scratch that, possibly can be done without it.

The main problem is that files being in .apk asset directory and lots of things can't be used from there (for example playing video, etc).

But if you could put an html file on SD card, then you could try opening it in native browser using link as "file://sdcard/html/links.html"

As you know io methods can use absolute paths, so you can copy html file from resources to any destination you would want and then try to open it using application:openUrl

There was an example of copying files in context of databases, you may use the same code and try if it works

http://docs.giderosmobile.com/reference/plugin/sqlite3#sqlite3

keszegh

thanks, native plugin i thought about but it would be really just so much simpler to have the browser deal with this. so i will try the copy html to sdcard and then load it solution. that sounds as good as it gets.

keszegh

@ar2rsawseen, in android gideros player i tried to open a html file that is present in the root of my sdcard, but i don't manage
i've tried
application:openUrl("/sdcard/help.html")
application:openUrl("/mnt/sdcard/help.html")
application:openUrl("file:///sdcard/help.html")
application:openUrl("file:///mnt/sdcard/help.html")
application:openUrl("file://sdcard/help.html")
application:openUrl("file://mnt/sdcard/help.html")
none of them works.

can you help me with this?

btw copying from local to the sdcard root worked fine, also on desktop e.g.
application:openUrl("C:/help.html")
works too.

keszegh

btw when i open the file from a file browser into opera, the address is "file:///mnt/sdcard/help.html", so that's the one which should work in gideros i expect, but it does not (also canopenurl gives false for this)

ar2rsawseen

hmm I thought application:openUrl("/mnt/sdcard/help.html") should have worked. ok I will experiment too

keszegh

thanks, i'm curious how it would work.

keszegh

@ar2rsawseen, any news perhaps? thanks

keszegh

@ar2rsawseen you just (apparently) leave for a long weekend, but i already feel like tumbleweeds rolling in the ghost town of gideros forums.
hope you will come back refreshed (and with a solution to this problem).

ar2rsawseen

Yes, unfortunately it does not work, because scheme file:// is not supported in Gideros, currently I do not know if there is a specific reason behind it, or there was simply no need for it, will check with @atilim

But for now, it seems NativeUI with Android bridge could be only solution.

keszegh

welcome back and thanks for the update,
then let's add it as a feature request from my side. let me know if it will be in next gideros version.