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Android Build a Blog Reader Android App Using Intents to Display and Share Posts Opening a Webpage Within the App

Marc-Oliver Gern
Marc-Oliver Gern
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Posted by Marc-Oliver Gern
Marc-Oliver Gern
8,747 Points

Opening a Webpage Within the App

I followed the video closely, but got stuck when I set up a new Activity. The .xml file was populated with way more code than shown in the video – which confused me a bit. The next BIG thing that made my app constantly crash was an error in the BlogWebViewActivity.java file. On line 27 I needed to replace ... (R.menu.activity_blog_web_view, menu) with (R.menu.blog_web_view, menu).

Not sure WHY? Any suggestions?

4 Answers

Hiroki Hokari
Hiroki Hokari
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Hiroki Hokari
Hiroki Hokari
5,308 Points

Do you have activity_blog_web_view file in menu folder? I'm not sure because I can't open android Studio right now, but I thought it would be without-"activity" version that lives in menu folder. In that case, it's useless to set activity_blog_web_view as "menu" layout. Ben should have replaced as you did, I supposed. As the matter of fact, he didn't press the menu button in emulater. If he had done that, the app would crash.

This is total guess, sorry. I'm not used to my new OS and have some issue myself on Android Studio.

Marc-Oliver Gern
Marc-Oliver Gern
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Marc-Oliver Gern
Marc-Oliver Gern
8,747 Points

Hi Hiroki,

I am working in Eclipse. Android Studio might set up different files.

Hiroki Hokari
Hiroki Hokari
5,308 Points
Hiroki Hokari
Hiroki Hokari
5,308 Points

I bet they are almost same. I used eclipse longer than Android Studio, and when I changed to Android Studio, I didn't feel any difference in files.

Kevin Lavi
Kevin Lavi
3,311 Points
Kevin Lavi
Kevin Lavi
3,311 Points

I'm stuck trying to understand this also. Eclipse also makes a separate Fragment layout for the BlogWebView. Reading through some forum posts says I should just remove the Fragment totally, but the extra code in BlogWebViewActivity.java (that's not shown in the video) connects to the fragment file made, so once I delete the fragment it creates an error in BlogWebViewActivity.java. I'm not sure if I should just keep the fragment and just let it be, or delete that code in BlogWebViewActivity.java, or run it through activity_blog_web_view.xml instead of the fragment. Not to mention I have no idea what to do with all of the extra code in the java file that Marc brought up.