Flash player in WebView

[rickrack]

Hi all
I was trying to use a WebView to display a website.
This website has a .swf player with a live streaming that it could be seen with the default Android browser (you have to install Adobe Flash Player, of course)..

Unfortunately, this .swf player is not visible from the WebView and I have no idea for how to solve this problem.

Can you help me?
Thank you!

 

[NJDude]

Flash on a WebView doesn't really work, if you search the forum you'll find other users also reported this, it has nothing to do with B4A, it's an Android issue.

 

[rickrack]

Thanks for reply NJDude, sorry I didn't use the "search" function.
Aren't there alternatives?

 

[margret]

I have flash running in a web view but I am away from my code machine. When I get back I will post code to make it work.

 

[rickrack]

wow margret, THANK YOU!
I'll wait...

 

[NJDude]

Out of curiosity, what's the website you are trying?

 

[margret]

WebView With Flash

Hello,

Here is the code. Be sure to include the Reflection library with your project. You can paste this code in a new project, include the Reflection library and install and you should be good to go.

'Activity module
Sub Process_Globals
End Sub
Sub Globals
   Dim myw As WebView
   Dim rr As Reflector
   Dim HTMLStr As String
End Sub
Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
   HTMLStr = "http://www.canonusa.com"
   CreateWV
End Sub
Sub Activity_Resume
End Sub
Sub Activity_Pause (UserClosed As Boolean)
End Sub
Sub CreateWV
   myw.Initialize("myw")
   Activity.AddView(myw,0,0,1024,560)
   rr.Target = myw
    rr.Target = rr.RunMethod("getSettings")
    rr.RunMethod2("setPluginsEnabled", True, "java.lang.boolean")
   myw.JavaScriptEnabled = True
   myw.ZoomEnabled = True
   myw.Visible = True
   myw.LoadURL(HTMLStr)
End Sub

 

[rickrack]

Out of curiosity, what's the website you are trying?

I'm trying this... it's a friend website to watch live football matches.

@margret - not working for me..

 

[margret]

I'm trying this... it's a friend website to watch live football matches.

@margret - not working for me..

It is working fine on all three devices I have. What are you testing on and what version of Android are you running. If you are on HoneyComb, you may need to mod the manifest. I had to on the ASUS.

 

[rickrack]

It is working fine on all three devices I have. What are you testing on and what version of Android are you running. If you are on HoneyComb, you may need to mod the manifest. I have to on the ASUS.

I've ICS.. (Galaxy Nexus)
So I need to edit the manifest file? what i should write there?

 

[NJDude]

Ok thanks.

Yes, that code might work on "certain" sites, it doesn't work on yours, nor others using Flash Players.

Add this line to your manifest and see if it works:

android:hardwareAccelerated="true"

It should be added to 'AddManifestText'

 

[rickrack]

@NJDude - Where I should add that line?
like this?

AddManifestText(
<application>
android:hardwareAccelerated="true"
</application>)

 

[NJDude]

It should look something like this:

AddManifestText(
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" />
<supports-screens android:largeScreens="true" 
    android:normalScreens="true" 
    android:smallScreens="true" 
    android:hardwareAccelerated="true"    <---Right here
    android:anyDensity="true"/>)

 

[margret]

Thanks NJDude,

I was just fixing to post. I had to go back and look.

 

[rickrack]

@NJDude - it didn't worked... i really can't belive it! android is a last-generation os and devs can't use flash on their browsers?

*edit*

:O margret so it works on yours... it's so strange

 

[NJDude]

Well, then I have a question for you, what's the SDK level you have?, I have the latest (SDK 15) I think there's a minimum to get it to work (I believe is SDK 10 or 11, not sure).

 

[margret]

On my HoneyComb 3.2.1 I had to use SDK 11 before flash would run in a WebView.

 

[rickrack]

I use SDK 13.. Now I just tried with 15, but nothing changed

Thanks for support!

 

[margret]

ASUS is about to release an ICS update for my Transformer. Now I am not sure I want to install it. Please keep us updated if you find any info on getting Flash to run. Sorry, I thought this would work for you.

 

[rickrack]

I have a custom rom... could it depends by this?

*edit*

this evening (italian GMT) i will try with my "old" HTC Desire