Android Question Loading a weather widget with Webview1

[Colin Evans]

Hi, Before I upgraded to the latest version my weather page worked well using Accuweather widget but now all I get is a blank page with Loading Widget being displayed

I've tried it with the Met Office widget but have the same results, just a blank screen

The code is

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
    'Do not forget to load the layout file created with the visual designer. For example:
    'Activity.LoadLayout("Layout1")
    Activity.LoadLayout("page4")
    Activity.Title = "DITL - Weather"
    WebView1.LoadHtml($"<a href="http://www.accuweather.com/en/gb/rhyl/ll18-4/weather-forecast/322483" class="aw-widget-legal"></a><div id="awcc1496679191204" class="aw-widget-current"  data-locationkey="322483" data-unit="f" data-language="en-us" data-useip="false" data-uid="awcc1496679191204"></div><script type="text/javascript" src="https://oap.accuweather.com/launch.js"></script>"$)
    Activity.AddMenuItem("Home","mnuPage1")
    Activity.AddMenuItem("Tide Tables","mnuPage2")
    Activity.AddMenuItem("GPS","mnuPage3")
    Activity.AddMenuItem("Knots","mnuPage4")
    Activity.AddMenuItem("Weather","mnuPage5")
    Activity.AddMenuItem("Rhyl Charts","mnuPage6")
    Activity.AddMenuItem("Exit","mnuPage7")      
End Sub

Can anyone help
Many thanks

 

[Erel]

Please use [code]code here...[/code] tags when posting code.

It is most probably not related to B4A version. My guess is that you need to update the widget html.

 

[Colin Evans]

I've updated the widget html, copied from the accuweather site but still the same result

 

[Erel]

Nothing related to WebView has changed in v7.0. The problem is somewhere else.

 

[Colin Evans]

Any idea's where as I can't see anything. Could you suggest another way of implementing it

 

[Erel]

I've tried to load the html with on the PC:

It fails to loads a resource because it assumes that the scheme will be http or https. In this case the scheme is file://. You will need to host the html code online and load it with WebView.LoadURL.

 

[Colin Evans]

Hi Erel, many thanks for taking the time to reply and explain what the problem appears to be, unfortunately I'm still not sure what I should do to get it working or why it was originally and now isn't. Is it something that the accuweather site have changed and I should ask them, or is there a work around, thanks again.

 

[Erel]

They changed something in the JavaScript. It is not related to B4A v7.

A workaround is to put this html online somewhere.

 

[Colin Evans]

Okay retried it and used the WebView1.LoadUrl and it works, many thanks