Build a Web Browser for Android : 2 hour Android Project

In this video we are first going to create a new project and learn about the configurations that come in handy when creating a new project.

Then we will learn the difference between the words Frontend and Backend. The frontend is basically the xml file and the backend is the java file.

In this video we are going to learn about the folder structure of android studio and what each folder represents.

In this video we are going to be learning about layouts. We are going to understand the xml file and what various elements in the layout file represent.

We are also going to be learning the difference between the horizontal linear layout and vertical linear layout,

In this video we are going to be initializing and then declaring the buttons. Further we are going to learn how implement the backend part required that comes into play when a button is clicked.

The Android Emulator given by android is pretty slow. So we are going to download a faster version that will help us test our apps pretty quickly.

In this video we are going to learn how we are going to test the applications on our mobile phone. The apk file will be automatically installed on our mobile phone.

In this video we are going to be learning about a web browser element called webview. Everything that create from now on will be build on the base structure of webview.

We are also going to talk about uses-persmissions. What they are and how they are going to affect our project.

We are going to add the user-interface (UI) in this video. UI will include a place to enter the url, a go button and 4 buttons for going backward, forward, reload and clear history.

In this video we are going to make our user interface ( UI ) more beautiful. We are going to add colors to buttons.

In this video we are going to load the URL based on what was typed in EditText. That is, what was typed in the URL area.

Until now, If opened a link it opened up in another browser, which we don't want. We want links and websites to open in our own browser. This is done with the help of WebViewClient.

Until now, we had to add a http:// at the starting of the url. If didn't add it the website wouldn't open up. We will fix this in this video

Almost all websites have JavaScript in them. If we opened up a website like YouTube it wouldn't open up because it requires JavaScript.

In this video, we used WebSettings to enable JavaScript in our mobile web browser.

After pressing the GO button the keyboard doesn't automatically close itself. In this video we used InputMethodManager to hide the keyboard after typing in the URL.

In this video we will implement the 4 buttons -

1) Forward - This will move the website forward in history
2) Back - You can go back in history using this button
3) Reload - This also stands for refresh. Used to reload a website
4) Clear - Used to clear history and after this forward and back button won't work.

This is a loader that we will implement to tell us that a website is loading or not. We will use WebChromeClient and ProgressBar to achieve it.

In this video we will go through the highlights of launching the application on the Google PlayStore.

This is the end of the course. In this video we discuss where we can go from here and what else can you expect from me and this course.