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add doc about migrating to new WebView in KLP
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diff --git a/docs/html/guide/guide_toc.cs b/docs/html/guide/guide_toc.cs index 21d295a..12228f1 100644 --- a/docs/html/guide/guide_toc.cs +++ b/docs/html/guide/guide_toc.cs @@ -495,6 +495,9 @@ <li><a href="<?cs var:toroot ?>guide/webapps/webview.html"> <span class="en">Building Web Apps in WebView</span> </a></li> + <li><a href="<?cs var:toroot ?>guide/webapps/migrating.html"> + <span class="en">Migrating to WebView in Android 4.4</span> + </a></li> <li><a href="<?cs var:toroot ?>guide/webapps/debugging.html"> <span class="en">Debugging Web Apps</span> </a></li> diff --git a/docs/html/guide/webapps/migrating.jd b/docs/html/guide/webapps/migrating.jd new file mode 100644 index 0000000..314842b --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/html/guide/webapps/migrating.jd @@ -0,0 +1,378 @@ +page.title=Migrating to WebView in Android 4.4 +@jd:body + +<div id="qv-wrapper"> +<div id="qv"> + +<h2>In this document</h2> +<ol> + <li><a href="#UserAgent">User Agent Changes</a></li> + <li><a href="#Threads">Multi-threading and Thread Blocking</a></li> + <li><a href="#URLs">Custom URL Handling</a></li> + <li><a href="#Viewport">Viewport Changes</a> + <ol> + <li><a href="#TargetDensity">Viewport target-densitydpi no longer supported</a></li> + <li><a href="#SmallViewport">Viewport zooms in when small</a></li> + <li><a href="#MultiViewport">Multiple viewport tags not supported</a></li> + <li><a href="#Zoom">Default zoom is deprecated</a></li> + </ol> + </li> + <li><a href="#Style">Styling Changes</a> + <ol> + <li><a href="#BackgroundSize">The background CSS shorthand overrides background-size</a></li> + <li><a href="#Pixels">Sizes are in CSS pixels instead of screen pixels</a></li> + <li><a href="#Columns">NARROW_COLUMNS and SINGLE_COLUMN no longer supported</a></li> + </ol> + </li> + <li><a href="#TouchCancel">Handling Touch Events in JavaScript</a></li> +</ol> + +</div> +</div> + + + + + + + + + + +<p>Android 4.4 (API level 19) introduces a new version of {@link android.webkit.WebView} that is +based on <a href="http://www.chromium.org/Home">Chromium</a>. This change upgrades +{@link android.webkit.WebView} performance and standards support for HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript +to match the latest web browsers. Any apps using {@link android.webkit.WebView} will inherit these +upgrades when running on Android 4.4 and higher.</p> + +<p>This document describes additional changes +to {@link android.webkit.WebView} that you should be aware of if you set your +<a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#target">{@code +targetSdkVersion}</a> to "19" or higher.</p> + +<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> +If your <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#target">{@code +targetSdkVersion}</a> is set to "18" or lower, {@link android.webkit.WebView} operates in +"quirks mode" in order to avoid some of the behavior changes described below, as closely +as possible—while still providing your app the performance and web standards upgrades. +Beware, though, that <a href="#Columns">single and narrow column layouts</a> and <a +href="#Zoom">default zoom levels</a> are +<strong>not supported at all</strong> on Android 4.4, and there may be other behavioral differences +that have not been identified, so be sure to test your app on Android 4.4 +or higher even if you keep your <a +href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#target">{@code +targetSdkVersion}</a> set to "18" or lower. </p> + +<p>To help you work through any issues you may encounter when migrating your app to +{@link android.webkit.WebView} in Android 4.4, you can enable remote debugging through +Chrome on your desktop by calling +{@link android.webkit.WebView#setWebContentsDebuggingEnabled setWebContentsDebuggingEnabled()}. +This new feature in {@link android.webkit.WebView} allows +you to inspect and analyze your web content, scripts, and network activity while running in +a {@link android.webkit.WebView}. For more information, see <a +href="https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/remote-debugging">Remote +Debugging on Android</a>.</p> + + + + +<h2 id="UserAgent">User Agent Changes</h2> + +<p>If you serve content to your {@link android.webkit.WebView} based on the user agent, you should +to be aware of the user agent string has changed slightly and now includes the Chrome version:</p> + +<pre class="no-pretty-print"> +Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4; Nexus 4 Build/KRT16H) AppleWebKit/537.36 +(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 <strong>Chrome/30.0.0.0</strong> Mobile Safari/537.36 +</pre> + +<p>If you need to retrieve the user agent but don't need to store it for your app or +do not want to instantiate {@link android.webkit.WebView}, you should use +the static method, {@link android.webkit.WebSettings#getDefaultUserAgent +getDefaultUserAgent()}. However, if you intend to override the user agent string in your +{@link android.webkit.WebView}, you may instead want to use +{@link android.webkit.WebSettings#getUserAgentString getUserAgentString()}.</p> + + + + +<h2 id="Threads">Multi-threading and Thread Blocking</h2> + +<p>If you call methods on {@link android.webkit.WebView} from any thread other than your app's +UI thread, it can cause unexpected results. For example, if your app uses multiple threads, +you can use the {@link android.app.Activity#runOnUiThread runOnUiThread()} method +to ensure your code executes on the UI thread:</p> + +<pre> +runOnUiThread(new Runnable() { + @Override + public void run() { + // Code for WebView goes here + } +}); +</pre> + +<p>Also be sure that you <a href="{@docRoot}guide/components/processes-and-threads.html#Threads"> +never block the UI thread</a>. A situation in which some apps make this mistake is while waiting for +a JavaScript callback. For example, <strong>do not</strong> use code like this:</p> + +<pre> +// This code is BAD and will block the UI thread +webView.loadUrl("javascript:fn()"); +while(result == null) { + Thread.sleep(100); +} +</pre> + +<p>You can instead use a new method, {@link android.webkit.WebView#evaluateJavascript +evaluateJavascript()}, to run JavaScript asynchronously.</p> + + + + + +<h2 id="URLs">Custom URL Handling</h2> + +<p>The new {@link android.webkit.WebView} applies additional restrictions when requesting resources +and resolving links that use a custom URL scheme. For example, if you implement callbacks such as +{@link android.webkit.WebViewClient#shouldOverrideUrlLoading shouldOverrideUrlLoading()} or +{@link android.webkit.WebViewClient#shouldInterceptRequest shouldInterceptRequest()}, then +{@link android.webkit.WebView} invokes them only for valid URLs.</p> + +<p>If you are using a custom URL scheme or a base URL and +notice that your app is receiving fewer calls to these callbacks or failing +to load resources on Android 4.4, ensure that the requests specify valid URLs that conform to +<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-A">RFC 3986</a>. + +<p>For example, the new {@link android.webkit.WebView} may not call your +{@link android.webkit.WebViewClient#shouldOverrideUrlLoading shouldOverrideUrlLoading()} method +for links like this:</p> + +<pre><a href="showProfile">Show Profile</a></pre> + +<p>The result of the user clicking such a link can vary: +<ul> + <li>If you loaded the page by calling {@link android.webkit.WebView#loadData +loadData()} or {@link android.webkit.WebView#loadDataWithBaseURL +loadDataWithBaseURL()} with an invalid or null base URL, then you will not receive the +{@link android.webkit.WebViewClient#shouldOverrideUrlLoading shouldOverrideUrlLoading()} callback +for this type of link on the page. + <p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> + When you use {@link android.webkit.WebView#loadDataWithBaseURL +loadDataWithBaseURL()} and the base URL is invalid or set null, all links in the content +you are loading must be absolute.</p> + <li>If you loaded the page by calling {@link android.webkit.WebView#loadUrl +loadUrl()} or provided a valid base URL with {@link android.webkit.WebView#loadDataWithBaseURL +loadDataWithBaseURL()}, then you will receive the +{@link android.webkit.WebViewClient#shouldOverrideUrlLoading shouldOverrideUrlLoading()} callback +for this type of link on the page, but the URL you receive will be absolute, relative +to the current page. For example, the URL you receive will be +<code>"http://www.example.com/showProfile"</code> instead of just <code>"showProfile"</code>. +</ul> + + +<p>Instead of using a simple string in a link as shown above, you can use a custom scheme such +as the following:</p> + +<pre><a href="example-app:showProfile">Show Profile</a></pre> + +<p>You can then handle this URL in your +{@link android.webkit.WebViewClient#shouldOverrideUrlLoading shouldOverrideUrlLoading()} method +like this:</p> + +<pre> +// The URL scheme should be non-hierarchical (no trailing slashes) +private static final String APP_SCHEME = "example-app:"; + +@Override +public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) { + if (url.startsWith(APP_SCHEME)) { + urlData = URLDecoder.decode(url.substring(APP_SCHEME.length()), "UTF-8"); + respondToData(urlData); + return true; + } + return false; +} +</pre> + +<p>If you can't alter the HTML then you may be able to use +{@link android.webkit.WebView#loadDataWithBaseURL loadDataWithBaseURL()} and set a base URL +consisting of a custom scheme and a valid host, such as +<code>"example-app://<valid_host_name>/"</code>. For example:</p> + +<pre> +webView.loadDataWithBaseURL("example-app://example.co.uk/", HTML_DATA, + null, "UTF-8", null); +</pre> + +<p>The valid host name should conform to +<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-A">RFC 3986</a> +and it's important to include the trailing slash at the end, otherwise, any requests from the +loaded page may be dropped.</p> + + + +<h2 id="Viewport">Viewport Changes</h2> + + +<h3 id="TargetDensity">Viewport target-densitydpi no longer supported</h3> + +<p>Previously, {@link android.webkit.WebView} supported a viewport property called +<code>target-densitydpi</code> to help web pages specify their intended screen density. This +property is no longer supported and you should migrate to using standard solutions with +images and CSS as discussed in <a +href="http://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/webview/pixelperfect">Pixel-Perfect UI in +the WebView</a>.</p> + + +<h3 id="SmallViewport">Viewport zooms in when small</h3> + +<p>Previously, if you set your viewport width to a value less than or equal to "320" +it would be set to "device-width", and if you set the viewport height to a value less than or +equal to the {@link android.webkit.WebView} height, it would be set to "device-height". However, +when running in the new {@link android.webkit.WebView}, the width or height value is adhered and +the {@link android.webkit.WebView} zooms in to fill the screen width.</p> + + +<h3 id="MultiViewport">Multiple viewport tags not supported</h3> + +<p>Previously, if you included multiple viewport tags in a web page, {@link android.webkit.WebView} +would merge the properties from all the tags. +In the new {@link android.webkit.WebView}, only the last viewport is +used and all others are ignored.</p> + + +<h3 id="Zoom">Default zoom is deprecated</h3> + +<p>The methods {@link android.webkit.WebSettings#getDefaultZoom()} and +{@link android.webkit.WebSettings#setDefaultZoom setDefaultZoom()} for getting and setting +the initial zoom level on a page have are no longer supported and you should instead define +the appropriate viewport in the web page.</p> + +<p class="caution"><strong>Caution:</strong> These APIs are not supported on Android 4.4 and higher +at all. Even if your <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#target" +>{@code targetSdkVersion}</a> is set to "18" or lower, these APIs have no effect.</p> + +<p>For information about how to define the viewport properties in your HTML, read +<a href="http://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/webview/pixelperfect" class="external-link" +>Pixel-Perfect UI in the WebView</a>. + +<p>If you cannot set the width of the viewport in the HTML, then you should call +{@link android.webkit.WebSettings#setUseWideViewPort setUseWideViewPort()} to ensure the page +is given a larger viewport. For example:</p> + +<pre> +WebSettings settings = webView.getSettings(); +settings.setUseWideViewPort(true); +settings.setLoadWithOverviewMode(true); +</pre> + + + + + +<h2 id="Style">Styling Changes</h2> + +<h3 id="BackgroundSize">The background CSS shorthand overrides background-size</h3> + +<p>Chrome and other browser have behaved this way for a while, but now +{@link android.webkit.WebView} will also override a CSS setting for {@code background-size} +if you also specify the {@code background} style. For example, the size here will be reset +to a default value:</p> + +<pre class="no-pretty-print"> +.some-class { + background-size: contain; + background: url('images/image.png') no-repeat; +} +</pre> + +<p>The fix is to simply switch the two properties around.</p> + +<pre class="no-pretty-print"> +.some-class { + background: url('images/image.png') no-repeat; + background-size: contain; +} +</pre> + + +<h3 id="Pixels">Sizes are in CSS pixels instead of screen pixels</h3> + +<p>Previously, size parameters such as <a +href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window.outerWidth" class="external-link"> +<code>window.outerWidth</code></a> and +<a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window.outerHeight" +class="external-link"><code>window.outerHeight</code></a> returned a value in actual screen pixels. +In the new {@link android.webkit.WebView}, these return a value based on CSS pixels.</p> + +<p>It's generally bad practice to try and calculate the physical size in pixels for +sizing elements or other calculations. However, if you've disabled zooming and the initial-scale +is set to 1.0, you can use <code>window.devicePixelRatio</code> +to get the scale, then multiply the CSS pixel value by that. Instead, +you can also <a href="{@docRoot}guide/webapps/webview.html#BindingJavaScript">create a +JavaScript binding</a> to query the pixel size from the {@link android.webkit.WebView} itself.</p> + +<p>For more information, see <a class="external-link" +href="http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2012/03/windowouterwidt.html">quirksmode.org</a>.</p> + + + +<h3 id="Columns">NARROW_COLUMNS and SINGLE_COLUMN no longer supported</h3> + +<p>The {@link android.webkit.WebSettings.LayoutAlgorithm#NARROW_COLUMNS} value for {@link +android.webkit.WebSettings.LayoutAlgorithm} is not be supported in the new {@link +android.webkit.WebView}.</p> + +<p class="caution"><strong>Caution:</strong> These APIs are not supported on Android 4.4 and higher +at all. Even if your <a href="{@docRoot}guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#target" +>{@code targetSdkVersion}</a> is set to "18" or lower, these APIs have no effect.</p> + +<p>You can handle this change in the following ways:</p> + +<ul> + <li>Alter the styles of your application: + <p>If you have control of the HTML and CSS on the page, you may find that altering the design + of your content may be the most reliable approach. For example, for screens where you cite + licenses, you may want wrap text inside of a + <code><pre></code> tag, which you could do with the following styles: + <pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"></pre> + <p>This may be especially helpful if you have not defined the viewport properties for + your page.</p> + </li> + <li>Use the new {@link android.webkit.WebSettings.LayoutAlgorithm#TEXT_AUTOSIZING} layout + algorithm: + <p>If you were using narrow columns as a way to make a broad spectrum of desktop + sites more readable on mobile devices and you aren't able to change the HTML content, the new + {@link android.webkit.WebSettings.LayoutAlgorithm#TEXT_AUTOSIZING} algorithm may be a + suitable alternative to {@link android.webkit.WebSettings.LayoutAlgorithm#NARROW_COLUMNS}.</p> + </li> +</ul> + +<p>Additionally, the {@link android.webkit.WebSettings.LayoutAlgorithm#SINGLE_COLUMN} value—which +was previously deprecated—is also not supported in the new {@link +android.webkit.WebView}.</p> + + + + +<h2 id="TouchCancel">Handling Touch Events in JavaScript</h2> + +<p>If your web page is directly handling touch events in a {@link android.webkit.WebView}, +be sure you are also handling the <a +href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Reference/Events/touchcancel" +class="external-link"><code>touchcancel</code></a> +event. There are a few scenarios where <code>touchcancel</code> will be called, which can +cause problems if not received:</p> + +<ul> + <li>An element is touched (so <code>touchstart</code> and <code>touchmove</code> are called) + and the page is scrolled, causing a <code>touchcancel</code> to be thrown.</li> + <li>An element is touched (<code>touchstart</code> is called) but + <code>event.preventDefault()</code> is not called, resulting earlier enough that + <code>touchcancel</code> is thrown (so + {@link android.webkit.WebView} assumes you don't want to consume the touch events).</li> +</ul> + + + |