I wanted to write an App for my Android Tablet, something easy so I could get a basic understanding of what it would take to write an app. I figured that I could knock something out fairly quickly, but I didn’t know it would be this easy.

I’m a fairly big user of Eclipse, so install the the Android SDK kit and off I went.

I created a New Android Project and edited the main.xml, so it look like the following.

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<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

                     android:layout_width="fill_parent"

                     android:layout_height="fill_parent"

                     android:orientation="vertical">

  <WebView

                     android:layout_width="fill_parent"

                     android:layout_height="fill_parent"

                     android:id="@+id/webView" />

</LinearLayout>

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I then updated my java code so that would use the webView toolkit and open my HTML 5 app.

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package com.rogerhosto.myandroidapp;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.webkit.WebView;

public class MyAndroidAppActivity extends Activity {

	/** Called when the activity is first created. */

	@Override

	public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

		setContentView(R.layout.main);

		WebView webView = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView);

		webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

		webView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index.html");

	}

}

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Then I create a www directory in existing assets directory and created index.html for all my HTML5 code. That’s it.

Pretty Easy.