Android Question Download document in webView

[Alphaw]

I and a student and I would like to make an app that link to my college website, I need to login and download or open the materials when I click the items list on the web. I tried the download server or httputils2, however the webview do not have any change.

Question:
1. When I click the item, no reaction. Is it any sub I need to use for the webview? And Can I do the download action when click the items in webview? (The item selected will be doc, docx, ppt, pptx or pdf file.)

2. Can I use the phone's intent downloader to download the file? Since the original download function is enough for us to download the study materials. If yes, how to do so, if no, it will go back to question 1, how to download with the webview.

3. Last question, is it possible to read the document file directly when I click the item, just like showing content inside the webview.

I really need helps, thank you.

 

[eurojam]

1+2:
you can use the OverrideUrl event to decect the extension of the file, something like

Sub WebView1_OverrideUrl (Url As String) As Boolean
   If Url.indexof(".pdf")>0 OR Url.IndexOf(".doc")>0 OR Url.IndexOf(".docx")>0 Then
     ....

then you start to download the file using HttpUtils2
3: I think no, you can't do this.

 

[Alphaw]

1+2:
you can use the OverrideUrl event to decect the extension of the file, something like

Sub WebView1_OverrideUrl (Url As String) As Boolean
   If Url.indexof(".pdf")>0 OR Url.IndexOf(".doc")>0 OR Url.IndexOf(".docx")>0 Then
     ....

then you start to download the file using HttpUtils2
3: I think no, you can't do this.

eurojam, can you give me a hint for calling the download service? Here is my code, and I still cannot do downloading. The attached file is whole code, I just use download1, I do not know whether it is correct or anything I missing. Thank you.

Sub wv_OverrideUrl (Url As String) As Boolean
    If Url.indexof(".pdf")>0 Or Url.IndexOf(".doc")>0 Or Url.IndexOf(".docx")>0 Or Url.IndexOf(".ppt")>0 Or Url.IndexOf(".pptx")>0 Then
    'Send a GET request
    downloadurl = Url
    End If
    Dim job As HttpJob
    job.Initialize("Job", Me)
    job.Download(downloadurl)
    Return True
End Sub

 

[Erel]

See this tutorial: HttpUtils2 - Web services are now even simpler