How To Create WebView App In Android Studio

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In this tutorial we'll go over the steps taken to create a WebView wrapper app for Google Play Store in Android Studio. We will create and generate an APK file!

Android tutorial transcribing this Generate APK / ABB video instructions:

Keywords:
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Source code to copy and paste:

android:id="@+id/webview"

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Source Code 2 from 04:30
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public class mywebClient extends WebViewClient {
@Override
public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
}
@Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
return true;
}
}
@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
} else {
}
}

00:00 How to create an Android WebView app for publishing on Google Play online web store
01:37 Replacing TextView with WebView
01:43 Changing ConstraintLayout to RelativeLayout
02:00 How to find WebView component and add it to main android app view
03:20 Where and how to import Android webkit WebSettings, WebView and WebViewClient classes / objects into your Android app.
05:00 How to build and generate APK file in Android Studio
06:31 How to launch your WebView APK file in Android Studio device emulator

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In order to publish your WebView app in Google Play store, you need to buid APK and AAB
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Making a WebView App has it's pros and cons. You might not get 100% native features by converting your PWA into a WebView App. But it can get pretty close

One advantage of using a WebView wrapper around your website URL (which should be built as PWA) is you can publish it in Google play store, without having to code it in native development environment.

This tutorial is a transcript of a tutorial video by Javascriptual, you can watch it below.

How to build APK file in Android Studio (complete step by step instructions)

In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to build your own Android WebView app using Android Studio for publishing your app in Google Play store.

Let's go ahead and open a new project in Android Studio and select Empty Activity project, click Next button and create a name for your application.

In this drop down and change Kotlin to Java: go ahead and click Finish button and it's going to take a while to install.

Now that the installation is completed, click on the finish button. If the Windows Firewall box shows up just click Allow Access.

Make sure the word INTERNET is in uppercase letters and close the bracket.

Go ahead and remove the TextView component completely . Select and delete that and then you want to rename this component entirely. So delete everything but layout and rename it to RelativeLayout. Make sure relative layout is also specified on top in the opening bracket.

Now in the upper right corner, go to design, now here click on the magnifying glass button and that will open up a new search input box. So in this search start typing the word 'web' because we're going to look for the WebView component. Now click and drag the WebView component into this box here.

[iz_com]

It's rare for me to comment on any YouTube clip, but the material you posted on your channel is more than great, I'm happy and proud that I learned how to make the app without any mistakes, thank you from the bottom of my heart ❤

[gabrielantal]

First of all a BIG THANK YOU. Anyone willing to learn -- in about 8 minutes! -- how to create an Android App which will simply open a web site/page, need to look no further because this video is spot on. And I'm saying this after I checked out at least a dozen other resources (with the very same topic) available online. Keep it up Ghost Toghether!

[hdyssincorporation]

Well I have no words. Just EXCELLENT!!! You resolved one of my major problems and thank you for that.🥳

[ghosttogether]

If this helped you, please Like and Comment 🙂 This helps more people find my videos on YouTube, and motivate me to make more videos for ya'll

[jeffreyriggs]

Finally, a tutorial that actually thank you very much.

[abhigosavi]

I am WordPress developer. I was searching for Webview App. After watching this video, I have created App in few minutes. You have explained very easy in video. I just followed the steps and I created app....Thanks a lot.

[shoden]

Thanks for the great and simply explained video.

[SaadHamid]

This was super helpful and it works!!!! Thank you sir

[AnkitKumarRavi]

Thank you so much 🇮🇳 sir wonderful fantastic content ❤ I'm beginners
I'm not knowledge coding but now try to make a app

[conteudoanimal]

thanks a lot Ghost Together ... worked fine as shown .. congrats for the video ... sucess to you
my next step is publish this apk to google play ... I did this last time in 2019 and it changed a lot kkk
thanks a lot again !!!!

[pexigno]

Really helpful thank you very much! One quick question: how can I enable cache in Web view? For example, using html5 games saves progress...

[tunein]

You are great man.
getting everything right in just first attempt 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[istotka]

Hi. Please show how to add a menu and how to hide the items visible in the web version in the app

[AnkitKumarRavi]

Today's app created thank you sir

[syedmuhammadali]

This is an appreciation message for this the creator of this video. I've been wandering aimlessly on the Internet, from Android Studio Developers Website, to ChatGPT, to Bing to YouTube, but I couldn't find a simpler And to the point video than this. So anyone with no knowledge of app development, looking to make a simple app which can show his website should follow this Tutorial.
A huge Thank you to the Video Creator. Keep up the good work.

[georgebeard]

BTw the formatting of the text under the description is all wrong, somehow missing capital letters that are shown in the video

[johnprg]

If my website use a database ….. In my app it will be used normally and parse the data in database ?

[harishsamsit]

thanks for an excellent i need a help....i'm working on a webview app. normally when my website opens, its reload by collecting location info...i dont know how to achieve this in android webview..can you help me with this?

[timothyagyekum]

pls any help.
with your video i was able to convert by e-book website into an app. But my client cant download the materials contain in the e-book after the make payment.
thank u

[anthonyagadaga]

So I made a web app with Android Studio for bills payment that requires sign-up and login and I discovered that the login button is not working as expected though it is working fine using browsers.

The create account button is working fine on the web app as expected.

I need help