Thanks, everyone. I went with WebView in the end, and it works nicely. On Feb 4, 1:02 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Julian Bunn <jjb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks, Mark - now I understand what is going wrong. I suppose if the > > help file were on the > > sdcard it would work. > > Or if you served it up by a ContentProvider. > > > Is there a recommended way of showing a help file in assets from > > within an app - I've searched around and can't find anything > > appropriate. Using WebView seems like overkill. > > 1. WebView > > 2. TextView (with light HTML content) in a ScrollView > > 3. Launch the default browser on your Web site > > 4. Launch the default browser on a help file (and images, JS, CSS, > etc.) you serve from a ContentProvider > > 5. Launch the default browser on a help file (and images, JS, CSS, > etc.) you stick on external storage > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > Android Training in NYC:http://marakana.com/training/android/
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