Creating An In-Game Web Browser on Android

In my game, I'd like to have a kind of "message of the day" feature. Basically, when the user taps the "message of the day" button in the main menu, it would o开发者_开发问答pen up a browser view in-game. When the user is done, he taps a "close" button and the view disappears, returning him to the game menu.

So, is it possible to create a browser view dynamically? If yes, how?

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The following can be used in a Dialog as well

    public void setWebView() {
//WebViewClient is used if you want to capture stuff from the webview, like if a link was pressed
                WebViewClient yourWebClient = new WebViewClient() {
                    @Override
                    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
                        open_web = true;
                        if (!url.startsWith("http://") && !url.startsWith("https://")) {
                                url = "http://" + url;
                        }
                        Intent browserIntent = new Intent("android.intent.action.VIEW",
                                Uri.parse(url));
                        startActivity(browserIntent);
                        return true;
                    }
                };
                WebView wv = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
                wv.setWebViewClient(yourWebClient);
                String str = getHtml();
                wv.loadData(str, "text/html", "utf-8");
                wv.setBackgroundColor(0);
    }

    boolean isAsset = false;

    private String getHtml(){
        InputStream source = null;
        if (isAsset){
            source = getAssets().open("motd.html");
        } else {
            source = new FileInputStream(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "motd.html");
        }
    }

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You could probably just use a WebView. When you want it to show up you could just set its view state to View.VISIBLE. When you want it to go away, just set its view state to View.GONE.

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You can add/remove a WebView to your game dynamically (or show/hide it, whatever you prefer).

Take a look at the WebView tutorial for more info:

http://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/views/hello-webview.html

Make sure to leave room for your "Close" button in your layout, i.e. you don't want to set the layout height to "fill_parent".