Android Webview POST request

Issue

I'm trying to do a post request with a WebView on Android. After searching for days and trying dozens of things i couldn't get it work. In SWIFT it's just a few lines of code so i thought there must also be a simple way to do a post request for a webview on android. As (for 2016) EncodingUtils and HTTPClient are deprecated this are my current approaches:

String url = "http://example.com/php.php";
String postData = null;

postData = "param1=" + URLEncoder.encode("1234567890", "UTF-8");

webcontent.postUrl(url,postData.getBytes());
//or
webcontent.postUrl(url, Base64.encode(postData.getBytes(), Base64.DEFAULT));

Both just result in a blank screen. There is just one parameter to be sent and a string containing html from the server should be received. In addition, the php on the server returns a html-string with colored background irrespective of any input, but even this isn't displayed so maybe the whole request never reaches the server? Thanks in advance!

Solution

In Android you do not use webView to access the content of the HTTP response. You'll need to use HttpClient for that purpose!

See this nice tutorial which explains the fundamentals! Also see this video if you find it hard!

Hope it helps!

Answered By - OBX