Android WebView App (to Apache server)

Yippyyyy!!!

Just successfully created my first Android App.

So I have been playing around recently with modifications, improvements and configurations on my current project - "Smart Home using Raspberry Pi & Android with Voice Recognition."

I have been thinking of implementing a simple Android application which directly opens up URL, rather than going to my browser each and every time I need to access the web control server(Apache2).

So one might be wondering what is exactly this WebView 'nonsense' a simple Google search gave me this definition, A “webview” is a browser bundled inside of a mobile application producing what is called a hybrid app. Using a webview allows mobile apps to be built using Web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, etc.) but still package it as a native app and put it in the app store.

Now coming back to the App, i'm using the latest Android Studio, source code below.

Main_Activity.java

[sourcecode language="java"]
//__author__ = "Mpho Mphego"
//__description__ = "Android WebView App controlling Raspberry Pi running Apache2"
//__version__ = "Revision: 1.0 "
//__date__ = "Date: 2015/01/17 22:23 "
//__url__ = "mmphego.wordpress.com"
//__copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2015 Mpho Mphego"
//__license__ = "Java"

package com.wordpress.mpho112.mobilehomectrl;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.webkit.WebSettings;
import android.webkit.WebView;

public class MainActivity extends ActionBarActivity {
private WebView mWebView;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.activity_main_webview);
// Enable Javascript
WebSettings webSettings = mWebView.getSettings();
webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
mWebView.loadUrl("http://172.18.20.41/");
}

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu_main, menu);
return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
// Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
// automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
// as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
int id = item.getItemId();

//noinspection SimplifiableIfStatement
if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
return true;
}

return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}
}

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Activity_main.xml

[sourcecode]

<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="@+id/container"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivity">
tools:ignore="MergeRootFrame">

[/sourcecode]