Apps How can I customize my WebView that loads a webpage

[The7even]

I'm not sure if the question is clear at all but here is what I want to do..


I am loading a webpage using WebView.. my code looks like this..

public void open() {
 myWebViewV = new WebView(this);          
setContentView(myWebViewV); 
         myWebViewV.setWebViewClient(new  WebViewClient() {
 @Override             
public boolean  shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url){ 
                 view.loadUrl(url); 
                return true; 
            }           }); 

myWebViewV.loadUrl("http://www.mywebsite.org"); 
     }

what this simple code does is load the website that I want to view.. fine..

But this site also has things like "Reply", "Register", "Login" and etc..

I'm trying to change it so that the user has to click the buttons that I create for him/her that will do basically the same thing.

Is this possible?

I asked on stackoverflow and only received two answers, one of them wasn't very clear.

do I HAVE to actually know javascript too?

I was wondering if I can just use java to do this and hoping one of the android classes handles such things.

 

[zonk]

Your buttons can just use some kind of http method to communicate with the server, but if you want to actually interact with the webpage in your webview then yes probably need to interact with javascript...

Building Web Apps in WebView | Android Developers

 

[zonk]

BTW JS is very easy if you know any other programming language

 

[The7even]

BTW JS is very easy if you know any other programming language

yeah im good with java, know it well enough i'd say.. but i really never looked at js..

how long do you think it'd take me to learn it?

 

[zonk]

Honestly, minutes!

Its very fast and loose, syntax is similar to Java / C++ / PHP etc. Variables are loose like most scripts, e.g. PHP, Lua, etc.

Most use is just accessing the HTML / CSS DOMs

But in reality I think (if you're writing the webpages) then you'll just use callbacks to call a Java function, so most of your stuff will be in Java as you want!

 

[The7even]

Thank you.

I have no interest in really doing much with it.. but I do want to be able to add my own look to the website I'm loading in webview and want to add my own buttons and such that'll be performing the same functionality as the websites default.. didn't think i'd ever need js for that.

 

[zonk]

But HTML is just that, markup (formatting), you need JS to interact with it programmatically.

lol you'll be adding lots of little features with JS soon...

 

[venom2124]

yeah im good with java, know it well enough i'd say.. but i really never looked at js..

how long do you think it'd take me to learn it?

codecademy.com has a pretty good tutorial on javascript.