[android-developers] Re: What is a good way to download a webpage for offline reading?
How about virtual screenshot the webpage to save in a resolution that is high enough to zoom in the read. Additional save the stripped text of the web page for text reading. Evtl. to overlay on the screenshot. On Dec 30, 12:45 am, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: My understanding is that I can store stuff locally with gears. But this part is possible with Android in a nicer way. I was looking for the actual download a webpage mechanism. Cheers, Mariano On Dec 29, 2008, at 1:02 AM, Eric wrote: Have u hear of google gear? which is already integrated into Android.. If you use gear's features, I believe you can do what you are after. (but don't ask me how because I don't know.) Cheers Eric Portable Electronics Ltd www.hdmp4.com On Dec 28, 2:18 am, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was wondering what would be a good way to download a webpage for offline reading? I first thought about downloading the html source, grep it for the image tag's soure attribute and download the image. After rewriting the image tag in a way that it reffers to the local file and storing the html and the image content locally it should be possible to display the webpage from the local filesystem. But it could be a PITA to find all the image tags, would replicate browser functionality (parser) and wouldn't take care of images that are referenced in the css or set by Javascript. WebView offers a capturePicture() method. But even if I would find a way to easily store and retrieve the images, I can't use the zoom functionality of WebView anymore as well as the care for orientation changes and of course clicking on the links wouldn't be possible either. It seems that it could be possible to download the source, hand it to WebView and capture all requests for external resources, so that they can be downloaded and stored locally. So when later on loading the locally stored html the events could be overridden again and the images could be loaded locally. Does this make sense? Is that possible? Can WebView load/parse/ (render) a webpage when not displayed? Did anybody do this successfully or is this to much off the beaten (and tested) path? Cheers, Mariano --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: What is a good way to download a webpage for offline reading?
My understanding is that I can store stuff locally with gears. But this part is possible with Android in a nicer way. I was looking for the actual download a webpage mechanism. Cheers, Mariano On Dec 29, 2008, at 1:02 AM, Eric wrote: Have u hear of google gear? which is already integrated into Android.. If you use gear's features, I believe you can do what you are after. (but don't ask me how because I don't know.) Cheers Eric Portable Electronics Ltd www.hdmp4.com On Dec 28, 2:18 am, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was wondering what would be a good way to download a webpage for offline reading? I first thought about downloading the html source, grep it for the image tag's soure attribute and download the image. After rewriting the image tag in a way that it reffers to the local file and storing the html and the image content locally it should be possible to display the webpage from the local filesystem. But it could be a PITA to find all the image tags, would replicate browser functionality (parser) and wouldn't take care of images that are referenced in the css or set by Javascript. WebView offers a capturePicture() method. But even if I would find a way to easily store and retrieve the images, I can't use the zoom functionality of WebView anymore as well as the care for orientation changes and of course clicking on the links wouldn't be possible either. It seems that it could be possible to download the source, hand it to WebView and capture all requests for external resources, so that they can be downloaded and stored locally. So when later on loading the locally stored html the events could be overridden again and the images could be loaded locally. Does this make sense? Is that possible? Can WebView load/parse/ (render) a webpage when not displayed? Did anybody do this successfully or is this to much off the beaten (and tested) path? Cheers, Mariano --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[android-developers] Re: What is a good way to download a webpage for offline reading?
Have u hear of google gear? which is already integrated into Android.. If you use gear's features, I believe you can do what you are after. (but don't ask me how because I don't know.) Cheers Eric Portable Electronics Ltd www.hdmp4.com On Dec 28, 2:18 am, Mariano Kamp mariano.k...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was wondering what would be a good way to download a webpage for offline reading? I first thought about downloading the html source, grep it for the image tag's soure attribute and download the image. After rewriting the image tag in a way that it reffers to the local file and storing the html and the image content locally it should be possible to display the webpage from the local filesystem. But it could be a PITA to find all the image tags, would replicate browser functionality (parser) and wouldn't take care of images that are referenced in the css or set by Javascript. WebView offers a capturePicture() method. But even if I would find a way to easily store and retrieve the images, I can't use the zoom functionality of WebView anymore as well as the care for orientation changes and of course clicking on the links wouldn't be possible either. It seems that it could be possible to download the source, hand it to WebView and capture all requests for external resources, so that they can be downloaded and stored locally. So when later on loading the locally stored html the events could be overridden again and the images could be loaded locally. Does this make sense? Is that possible? Can WebView load/parse/ (render) a webpage when not displayed? Did anybody do this successfully or is this to much off the beaten (and tested) path? Cheers, Mariano --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
