react-native-custom-android-webview

react-native-custom-android-webview

Note: Android only Fork of the react-native webview that adds a couple new functions:

1. Ability to pass in an array of hostnames to open in a custom chrome tab
2. Ability to download PDFs / ZIPs / etc. automatically

Supports all the same props as the default react native webview

Additional Props

In addition to usual React Native WebView props:

Props	Type	Notes & Example
openInternally	Array[string]	```['google.com', 'facebook.com', 'app.facebook.com']````
toolbarColour	String	Hex code value for the toolbarColour on the Chrome custom tab

Manual installation

Step 1: Install npm package

npm install react-native-custom-android-webview

Step 2: Setup Android Project

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java

• Add import com.ovoenergy.customwebview.CustomWebViewPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new CustomWebViewPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

1. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

   	include ':react-native-custom-android-webview'
   

project(':react-native-custom-android-webview').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, '../node_modules/react-native-custom-android-webview/android') 3. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in `android/app/build.gradle`: compile project(':react-native-custom-android-webview') ```

Usage

import CustomWebView from 'react-native-custom-android-webview';

<CustomWebView
	...standardWebViewProps
	openInternally={['google.com', 'facebook.com', 'app.facebook.com']}
/>;

Note: The openInternally list should be based on host, not domain

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.