Comments on: Android tip #1 ContentProvider , Accessing local file system from WebView / showing image in webview using content://

By: Aris Boch

Aris Boch — Fri, 28 May 2010 02:37:31 +0000

Can any1 send me an app which can open html files from the g1 resp. android local storage?

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By: Yaya

Yaya — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:30:18 +0000

Hi,
can you explain how do access the file in the html code ?

i’ve tryed and i having “Failed to find provider info for com.myCompany.myPackageName”.
For more explanation see:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/d105f5194d843861#

Thanks a lot in advance !

Yaya

By: Amit

Amit — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:36:25 +0000

Hello Schorsch,

Couple of things, the solution above was for android 1.0/1.1 earlier, with the new 2.1 api this is supported out of the box. Now if I am embedding webkit in my app I can load local files easily.

Now coming to your situation, if you do not want an app and just have a web page which android users will open in their app it would not be a problem to access pictures from device.

You can easily try it by making a simple html, putting it on your server and trying to access it from android browser.

By: Schorsch

Schorsch — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:28:56 +0000

Hi Amit,

as i am not a coder, but only a project manager (for a small startup) i have a general question. Does your workaround also work with a simple web/xhtml page or is it neccessary to create a piece of software that needs to be installed on each individual handset that wants to access the local file system? I am asking because we want to give the users of our not yet released community the possibility to upload pictures stored on their devices from within the browser. We dont have any app and also dont want our users to install any apps (unless theres sth like firefox plugins, that would actually be great!)

Do you have any idea on how to make that happen from a pure browsers environment? Or does your idea already work from a pure xhtml site?

Thanks alot in advance!
Schorsch

By: Santori

Santori — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:10:37 +0000

Nice post. Thanks for sharing these tips.

By: Rokka

Rokka — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:31:24 +0000

ehh… bookmarked

By: Android, NetBeans, and the Assets directory | Yet Another Programming Blog

Android, NetBeans, and the Assets directory | Yet Another Programming Blog — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 23:23:12 +0000

[...] found a few posts about WebView being unable to open local files, and the need to use a ContentProvider to get around [...]

By: ATrubka

ATrubka — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:16:00 +0000

Hi, guys. I thought it might be helpful to have a complete working example.

It’s on my blog with some explanations around it:
http://blog.tourizo.com/2009/02/how-to-display-local-file-in-android.html

By: Amit

Amit — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:35:15 +0000

Hello Tyler,
Thanks for pointing that out and giving your code, I have added a note in point 3.