open local html file with navigateToURL on android & ios

yooni126

I have created an HTML file and I want to show it with navigateToUrl method:

var htmlFile:File = File.documentsDirectory.resolvePath("WebWin//Factor//" + "Factor" + ".html");
var fs:FileStream = new FileStream();
fs.open(htmlFile, FileMode.WRITE);
fs.writeUTFBytes(htmlString);
fs.close();
if(htmlFile.exists)
{
   navigateToURL(new URLRequest(htmlFile.url), "_blank"); 
}

but on Android or iOS, I can't open HTML file (I don't have any issue on windows)

this is htmlFile.url :

file///var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/AB199919-1E41-47E7-9716-DA5CD746D113/Documents/WebWin/Factor/Factor.html

Also for URLRequet url, I tried other ways like("http://"+htmlFile.url) but I wasn't successful
do me a big favor if you help me

joshtynjala

yooni126 file///

This seems wrong. The protocol should probably have a : character. Maybe this instead?

file:///var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/AB199919-1E41-47E7-9716-DA5CD746D113/Documents/WebWin/Factor/Factor.html

That being said, it's quite possible that Android and iOS are more locked down, and they simply won't allow local HTML files to be opened in their web browsers.

2jfw

A long time ago I was also messing around with this issue and from what I remember is that something like "file://" or "file:///" at the beginning of the URL did the trick. I even think that there was a difference on how you had to refer the file on Android or iOS!

Also file.openWithDefaultApplication may also work but I am not sure what happens when there is no default application but it could actually be that the browser will open and display the PDF