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POHow can a WebView display a local page through a hyperlink?
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    copied!<p>I am creating help pages for my application that I display in a WebView. I can easily see the home page, but I can't figure out how to follow local hyperlinks.</p> <p>Here is my code so far:</p> <pre><code>@Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { ... content = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.content); content.loadData(getTextFromResource(R.raw.help_main), "text/html", "utf-8"); content.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() { @Override public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) { view.loadUrl(url); return true; } }); } private String getTextFromResource(int aResourceId) { InputStream vRaw = getResources().openRawResource(aResourceId); ByteArrayOutputStream vStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); try { int i = vRaw.read(); while (i != -1) { vStream.write(i); i = vRaw.read(); } vRaw.close(); } catch (IOException e) { } return vStream.toString(); } </code></pre> <p>And in <code>/res/raw/help_main.html</code>:</p> <pre><code>&lt;h1&gt;Help menu&lt;/h1&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="help_overview.html"&gt;Overview&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; ... &lt;/ul&gt; </code></pre> <p>The link never leads to the Overview page, I tried with these URLs but nothing worked:</p> <ul> <li>help_overview.html</li> <li>./help_overview.html</li> <li>file://res/raw/help_overview.html</li> <li>file://android_asset/help_overview.html</li> <li>file://android_res/raw/help_overview.html</li> </ul> <p>Links to the internet work, but not local links, what URL should I use?</p> <p>I've seen the question <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14548286/local-html-page-raw-folder-in-webview-with-links-to-another-html-page">Local html page \raw\ folder in webview with links to another html page</a>, but its answer doesn't say <em>what</em> URL I should provide.</p>
 

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