WebView for internal html pages not working in the device

as long as the internal html files you user are placed in the resources folder of your titanium project everything should be fine. I did this before and never had problems with it.

I am also struggling with this issue. It seems to be a pretty complicated set of variables; it doesn't occur when the WebView is at the top level (a SplitWindow), but does in windows created later. It's also specific to local HTML files displayed using the "url" property. I'm hypothesizing this has something to do with the Resources directory structure.

I'm currently working around the issue by reading the HTML through the filesystem API and passing it to the view:


var htmlFile = Ti.Filesystem.getFile(Ti.Filesystem.resourcesDirectory, 'html', 'index.html');

var webView = Ti.UI.createWebView({
  html: htmlFile.read().text,
  scalesPageToFit: false
});

Maybe this will work for you?

— answered December 31st 2010 by Jonathan Chaffer
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Upon further investigation the problem must have something to do with how file paths are realized in the emulator vs. device. It's not the case sensitivity (good tip though, Tamas), but the fact it's path-related means that this alternative method also works:
```
var htmlFile = Ti.Filesystem.getFile(Ti.Filesystem.resourcesDirectory, 'html', 'index.html');

var webView = Ti.UI.createWebView({
  url: htmlFile.nativePath,
  scalesPageToFit: false
});
```
— commented January 1st 2011 by Jonathan Chaffer

Also take in account that the device is case sensitive while the emulator is not. So pay attention on the filename to have the same case ( index.html <> index.HTML )

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