Finding position in text

I'm trying to make a code where it runs through ever letter in a long line of text and add capitalized words to a list. To start with this I need to know how to return a letter from the text based on inputted position, a block that might look like this:

Input: Position

Output: Character from text

If anyone knows how that would be great!

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Have a look at these text blocks, with some logic you should get where you want to be:

Also to capitalise first letter ?

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Prevent WebView from displaying “web page not available”

I have an app that makes extensive use of a WebView. When the user of this app does not have Internet connection, a page saying "web page not available" and various other text appears. Is there a way to not show this generic text in my WebView? I would like to provide my own error handling.

private final Activity activity = this;

private class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient
 public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl) {
  // I need to do something like this:
  activity.webView.wipeOutThePage();
  activity.myCustomErrorHandling();
  Toast.makeText(activity, description, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
 }
}

I found out WebView->clearView doesn't actually clear the view.

First create your own error page in HTML and put it in your assets folder, Let's call it myerrorpage.html Then with onReceivedError:

mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
    public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl) {
        mWebView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/myerrorpage.html");

    }
});

The best solution I have found is to load an empty page in the OnReceivedError event like this:

@Override
public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl) {
    super.onReceivedError(view, errorCode, description, failingUrl);

    view.loadUrl("about:blank");
}

Finally, I solved this. (It works till now..)

My solution is like this...

1. Prepare the layout to show when an error occurred instead of Web Page (a dirty 'page not found message') The layout has one button, "RELOAD" with some guide messages.
2. If an error occurred, Remember using boolean and show the layout we prepare.
3. If user click "RELOAD" button, set mbErrorOccured to false. And Set mbReloadPressed to true.
4. if mbErrorOccured is false and mbReloadPressed is true, it means webview loaded page successfully. 'Cause if error occurred again, mbErrorOccured will be set true on onReceivedError(...)

Here is my full source. Check this out.

public class MyWebViewActivity extends ActionBarActivity implements OnClickListener {

    private final String TAG = MyWebViewActivity.class.getSimpleName();
    private WebView mWebView = null;
    private final String URL = "http://www.google.com";
    private LinearLayout mlLayoutRequestError = null;
    private Handler mhErrorLayoutHide = null;

    private boolean mbErrorOccured = false;
    private boolean mbReloadPressed = false;

    @SuppressLint("SetJavaScriptEnabled")
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_webview);

        ((Button) findViewById(R.id.btnRetry)).setOnClickListener(this);
        mlLayoutRequestError = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.lLayoutRequestError);
        mhErrorLayoutHide = getErrorLayoutHideHandler();

        mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webviewMain);
        mWebView.setWebViewClient(new MyWebViewClient());
        WebSettings settings = mWebView.getSettings();
        settings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        mWebView.setWebChromeClient(getChromeClient());
        mWebView.loadUrl(URL);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onSupportNavigateUp() {
        return super.onSupportNavigateUp();
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        int id = v.getId();

        if (id == R.id.btnRetry) {
            if (!mbErrorOccured) {
                return;
            }

            mbReloadPressed = true;
            mWebView.reload();
            mbErrorOccured = false;
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        if (mWebView.canGoBack()) {
            mWebView.goBack();
            return;
        }
        else {
            finish();
        }

        super.onBackPressed();
    }

    class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            return super.shouldOverrideUrlLoading(view, url);
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
            super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);
        }

        @Override
        public void onLoadResource(WebView view, String url) {
            super.onLoadResource(view, url);
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
            if (mbErrorOccured == false && mbReloadPressed) {
                hideErrorLayout();
                mbReloadPressed = false;
            }

            super.onPageFinished(view, url);
        }

        @Override
        public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl) {
            mbErrorOccured = true;
            showErrorLayout();
            super.onReceivedError(view, errorCode, description, failingUrl);
        }
    }

    private WebChromeClient getChromeClient() {
        final ProgressDialog progressDialog = new ProgressDialog(MyWebViewActivity.this);
        progressDialog.setProgressStyle(ProgressDialog.STYLE_HORIZONTAL);
        progressDialog.setCancelable(false);

        return new WebChromeClient() {
            @Override
            public void onProgressChanged(WebView view, int newProgress) {
                super.onProgressChanged(view, newProgress);
            }
        };
    }

    private void showErrorLayout() {
        mlLayoutRequestError.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    }

    private void hideErrorLayout() {
        mhErrorLayoutHide.sendEmptyMessageDelayed(10000, 200);
    }

    private Handler getErrorLayoutHideHandler() {
        return new Handler() {
            @Override
            public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
                mlLayoutRequestError.setVisibility(View.GONE);
                super.handleMessage(msg);
            }
        };
    }
}

Addition:Here is layout....

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="@+id/rLayoutWithWebView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >

<WebView
    android:id="@+id/webviewMain"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" />

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/lLayoutRequestError"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_centerInParent="true"
    android:background="@color/white"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:visibility="gone" >

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btnRetry"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:minWidth="120dp"
        android:text="RELOAD"
        android:textSize="20dp"
        android:textStyle="bold" />
</LinearLayout>

Check out the discussion at Android WebView onReceivedError(). It's quite long, but the consensus seems to be that a) you can't stop the "web page not available" page appearing, but b) you could always load an empty page after you get an onReceivedError

When webview is embedded in some custom view such that user almost believes that he is seeing a native view and not a webview. In such scenario showing the "page could not be loaded" error is preposterous, what I usually do in such situation is I load blank page and show a toast message as below

webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {

            @Override
            public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode,
                    String description, String failingUrl) {
                Log.e(TAG," Error occured while loading the web page at Url"+ failingUrl+"." +description);     
                view.loadUrl("about:blank");
                Toast.makeText(App.getContext(), "Error occured, please check newtwork connectivity", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                super.onReceivedError(view, errorCode, description, failingUrl);
            }
        });

You could use a GET request to get the page content and then display that data using the Webview, this way you are not using multiple server calls. Alternative you can use Javascript to check the DOM object for validity.

Perhaps I misunderstand the question, but it sounds like you're saying you get the error received callback, and you just are asking what is the best way to not show the error? Why don't you just either remove the web view from the screen and/or show another view on top of it?

I suppose that if you insist on doing this, you could just check if the resource is there before calling the loadURL function. Just simply override the functions and do the check before calling the super()

REMARK (maybe off-topic): In http, there is a method called HEAD which is described as follow:

The HEAD method is identical to GET except that the server MUST NOT return a message-body in the response

This method might be handy. Anyway how ever you implement it ... check this code:

import java.util.Map;

import android.content.Context;
import android.webkit.WebView;

public class WebViewPreLoad extends WebView{

public WebViewPreLoad(Context context) {
super(context);
}
public void loadUrl(String str){
if(//Check if exists)
super.loadUrl(str);
else
//handle error
}
public void loadUrl(String url, Map<String,String> extraHeaders){
if(//Check if exists)
super.loadUrl(url, extraHeaders);
else
//handle error
}
}

You could try this check using

if(url.openConnection().getContentLength() > 0)

I would just change the webpage to whatever you are using for error handling:

getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_PROGRESS);  
webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);  
final Activity activity = this;  
webview.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() {  
public void onProgressChanged(WebView view, int progress) {  
 // Activities and WebViews measure progress with different scales.  
 // The progress meter will automatically disappear when we reach 100%  
 activity.setProgress(progress * 1000);  
 }  
});  
webview.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {  
public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode, String description, String 
failingUrl) {  
 Toast.makeText(activity, "Oh no! " + description, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();  
}  
});  
webview.loadUrl("http://slashdot.org/");

this can all be found on http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html

I've been working on this problem of ditching those irritable Google error pages today. It is possible with the Android example code seen above and in plenty of other forums (ask how I know):

wv.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
    public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode,
                            String description, String failingUrl) {
       if (view.canGoBack()) {
          view.goBack();
        }
       Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), description, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
       }
    }
});

IF you put it in shouldOverrideUrlLoading() as one more webclient. At least, this is working for me on my 2.3.6 device. We'll see where else it works later. That would only depress me now, I'm sure. The goBack bit is mine. You may not want it.