[BUG] How to open/view email attachments from outlook inside Webview (Android/iOS)
Padhy, Niladri
21
Reputation points
Hi,
I am opening outlook email inside a webview. In the email I am able to open all links if available. But when I am opening any attachment then I am getting type as UNKNOW_TYPE and data as null. I have created a custom webview renderer and overrides WebChromeClient. Following is the sample code.
webView.Settings.SetSupportMultipleWindows(true);
webView.SetWebChromeClient(new MyWebClient());
public class MyWebClient : WebChromeClient
{
public override bool OnCreateWindow(Android.Webkit.WebView view, bool isDialog, bool isUserGesture, Message resultMsg)
{
try
{
if (view != null)
{
Android.Webkit.WebView.HitTestResult result = view.GetHitTestResult();
string data = result.Extra;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(data))
{
Context context = view.Context;
Intent browserIntent = new Intent(Intent.ActionView, Uri.Parse(data));
context.StartActivity(browserIntent);
}
}
return false;
}
catch (System.Exception ex)
{
return false;
}
}
}
I tried with setting custom UserAgent to detect the webview as desktop browser.
Android
webView.Settings.UserAgentString = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0";
iOS
CustomUserAgent = @"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.99 Safari/537.36";
The look and feel got changed in both iOS and Android. I am able to open attachments in iOS. In Android its opening the inbox page, but not opening any email, simply its selecting email.