Sometimes when asking Google Assistant to read a page, it starts reading what appears to be the page source, basically straight HTML instead of the page content. I noticed it when I see this, instead of having the pause button down below with a timeline underneath it it has simply the pause button with no timeline.
Anybody have any insight on this?
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So far, I have it so that when a user presses a button, a browser opens and redirects the user to my desired url. However, I want this to happen within the app instead of a web tab. How can I do this?
Use the BrowserComponent, just add it to the center of a border layout form and set the URL for that component. Check out the list of main components in Codename One within the developer guide.
Define a xml layout containing a widget called webview. Then in your activity you implement a listener to your button which invokes that xml with the desired page to load inside your webview. Google to find some code and return here with your code problems, if you find some. If this will be the case, open new questions provinding detailed info about your matters then we can help more. Best.
EDIT: Excuse me, just now, re-reading your question I think I really understand it, and the solution is very simple, just a line of code (to instruct your app to open a webpage inside your webview, and not the regular browser, outside your app). Try this:
wv = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.myWebView);
wv.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient()); // needed to open url inside our webview, otherwise it will open at the default browser
wv.loadUrl(url);
I'm just trying out a simple app in the CocoonJS launcher which contains some links that open some external page.
This works fine, but the problem is that I can't identify a way to go back a page (i.e. history back). The launcher app just displays the page in fullscreen, no user controls visible at all. This is troublesome, because when my users tap on an ad, I want them to be able to go back to the game.
Am I missing something or is this simply not supported?
I do not know of any way to display a navigation bar or something similar.
Nevertheless, you can open your external urls via Cocoon.App.openURL(url); which will enable the user to open it via a normal browser where you can navigate back.
Regards.
I agree with the solution proposed by Scdev. Also, interstitials or fullscreen ads usually have a dismiss button themselves. I might be misunderstanding something.
Regards,
Iker.
What's the best practice of loading data at launching Chrome App?
The landing page of my Chrome App is dependent on some configuration data, which I've stored in the chrome local storage. However, reading chrome local storage is an asynchronous process. Hence, after the App has launched, there is a period of time when the landing page doesn't show correctly.
To avoid this blank time (due to the asynchronous process of reading local storage), I'm thinking about reading data at background JS. However, I haven't googled out what's the best practice to do it.
Anybody has any comments? Thanks.
just listen to the onLaunched event
chrome.app.runtime.onLaunched.addListener(function() {
// load your data
});
Here's one piece of helpful suggestion I've got from the Google Group. Share here so that someone with the same problem might refer to it:
You can read from chrome.storage in the background page and open the window when the data is ready. However, the user experience might be even worse, because instead of the incorrect landing page, you have no user feedback at all.
The usual (and easy to implement) solution is to show your landing page with some visual feedback during data loading, like a spinning wheel with a "Loading" label. If you UI really requires the data to show up, you can add this visual indicator as an opaque div on top of the whole window.
Some people use splash screens, but I don't think it adds to the user experience.
I am developing a windows phone application.
In a page I placed a button and on this button click I open the webbrowser and redirects to our website pages for some processes. There are many webpages. In the last webpage we added a button "Close". In the close button click I want to close the webbrowser and open the application back with the last state before opening the webbrowser. How can I do this ?
Thanks.
I will refer to the button in the app as "app button" and the button in the web page as "close button".
Add a WebBrowser control called webBrowser1 to the Windows Phone app. Make it cover the entire screen, and set it's Visibility property to Collapsed.
On the app button's click event, use
webBrowser1.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
webBrowser1.Navigate(new Uri("http://yourwebsite.com/page");
to show the web browser and navigate it to the first page on your website.
Make the close button on the last page of your site navigate to a new page on your site, called "close.html" or whatever you want. In javascript, this would look like
<Button onclick="window.location.href='http://yourwebsite.com/close.html';">
Back in the app: On webBrowser1's Navigating event use,
if (e.Uri.ToString().Contains("close.html"))
{
webBrowser1.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Collapsed;
}
When the you click the button on the last page of your site, it navigates to "close.html". When this happens, the Web Browser's Navigating event fires. Since this event fires every time you change pages, you need to check to see if the new url contains "close.html", the page your close button is navigating to. If it does, the Web Browser will be hidden and you will see your app again.
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(In VB, the code would be )
webBrowser1.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible
webBrowser1.Navigate(New Uri("http://yourwebsite.com/page")
And
If e.Uri.ToString.Contains("close.html")
webBrowser1.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Collapsed
End If
Edit: I was thinking in generic terms when i wrote the answer and did not remember that you are asking specifically about the webbrowser (hence, using a webbrowsertask launcher). Thank you #Claus for point out the OAuth situation. So, i am amending my answer to explain that it is possible and also mention an issue with using the launcher as there is no way guarantee to return back to a given point in your launcher app (as it is with choosers due to the availability of callbacks).
It is not possible to achieve this in general terms. That is, there is an application A which opens another application B and from application B you would like to close-it-and-open-A. There are many reasons why i think it is not possible:
- How does one get the address/reference to the application A. No API for that at the moment.
- There is no content-handler/plugin where a 3rd party can register an app with the web-browser.
- Most importantly, security, security, security. This would open doors for attacks from the web.
However, for your requirement of application B being a web-browser, it is possible to use a task launcher WebBrowserTask. As #claus suggests, you could have Window.close() javascript in your last page to close the browser and hence reveal the app underneath it (hopefully, A). The problem here is that if, the user opens an app (let's call it C) after the browser has launched (and before the browser is closed), and the user does not close C, then when the browser gets closed, the user will be returned to C and not to the launcher App! This is not what you want based on your requirement.
So, if you would like to achieve the kind of effect you are describing in your question, it is best that you embed the Web-browser in your application (as a full-screen app) and from that vantage point you can interact between the web-browser (control) and the (host) app via Javascript.
Hopefully, this helps.
I have a tab with an iframe external web page that loads... I would love a hyperlink inside that web page to link one of my photo albums in "theater" mode so you don't leave the page. However, any link I program inside that web page just brings in that photo album inside (not popped up and not in theater mode no matter if I have the &theater in the url).
Can I get some help on how to do this? Thanks!
this is a limitation of iframes in general. Less of a limitation and more of a security issue. As you said.. the iframe loads and external page - a page that could essentially come from anywhere. To protect the integrity of the site displaying this external page, the iframe can not access the page that contains it.
You might want to try opening a new window using javascript :
window.open ("{path_to_image}","title","menubar=1,resizable=1,width=350,height=250");
as you can see there are several options that you can set to customize the popup window.
Here is another link with some info about iframes