Flash in a WebView

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Ooops I posted this to the main Hero forum yesterday by mistake - it is more properly and Android developer post specific to the Hero. . . .

I've been trying to run Flash in a Webview on my Hero.

Flash runs in the standard Browser okay, but I get the 'missing plugin' icon when trying to view anthing with Flash in the WebView.

I'm not sure if it has been disabled, or I just haven't found the right settings. I'm using the standard,

mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
mWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
mWebView.getSettings().setAllowFileAccess(true);
mWebView.getSettings().setPluginsEnabled(true);

Then I'm also calling (through reflection) the 'setFlashPlayerEnabled' method described by cyanogen
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=521221

//Set Flash Player Enabled
Boolean[] input={new Boolean(true)};
try{
Class cl=Class.forName("android.webkit.WebSettings");
Class[] par=new Class[1];
par[0]=Boolean.TYPE;
Method mthd=cl.getMethod("setFlashPlayerEnabled",par);
mthd.invoke(mWebView.getSettings(),input);
mWebView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/index.html");
}catch(Exception e){}

But still no Flash in the WebView.

Is there anything else that needs to be called?

How about
setPluginsPath("")

. . . . what path should that call on the Hero?

Originally Posted by alexcq

}catch(Exception e){}

On general Java principles, I'd put some code in this exception handler to see if something is thrown when you get the method or do the invoke...

Otherwise, no ideas

Thanks for that - generally I'm using

mWebView.loadUrl("http://www.google.com/"+e.toString());

while debugging on the device to have any errors sent to the URL bar. A bit nasty, but it gets me the info.

Originally Posted by alexcq

Thanks for that - generally I'm using

mWebView.loadUrl("http://www.google.com/"+e.toString());

while debugging on the device to have any errors sent to the URL bar. A bit nasty, but it gets me the info.

nice one

Android 2.2 Flash in a WebView

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Hi,
I just tried loading a swf in a WebView and it seems to be working. I needed to enable setPluginsEnabled(true); which I saw in your post. Thanks.

Have you tried asking this question at http://anddev.org ?

let me guess - Android version is 2.1 or lower

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I came to that conclusion after i noticed that on my N1 running 2.2 this works flawlessly but on my Evo running 2.1 it shows gibberish.

am i correct?

Hello all.

After trying using flash in my application, I have been very disapointed.

Once the webview is loaded, all my activity blink.

You can find a more accurate description, and the source code of the issue here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5...iew-with-flash

and the demo apk here: http://cl.ly/3g0s1p030j243y0p3m2F


Thank a lot for any help, I cannot sleep till I fix this issue...