Android WebView issue - Uncaught ReferenceError: 'String' is not defined - javascript

I know this has been already asked here.
But even after following the accepted answer here (and similar other questions on SO) - I am unable to link my client side Android code to my JavaScript due to the Uncaught ReferenceError.
My Android code snippet -
public class WebActivityExample extends Activity {
WebView mWebView;
WebAppInterface WAInterface;
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
this.getWindow().requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_PROGRESS);
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
mWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
WAInterface = new WebAppInterface(this);
mWebView.addJavascriptInterface(WAInterface, "Android");
mWebView.loadUrl("http://myurlhere");
}
public class WebAppInterface {
Context mContext;
/** Instantiate the interface and set the context */
WebAppInterface(Context c) {
mContext = c;
}
/** Show a toast from the web page */
#JavascriptInterface
public void showToast(String toast) {
Toast.makeText(mContext, toast, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
System.out.println("toast " + toast);
}
}
}
My website is running AngularJS on the client side and PHP on the server side. Hence I have a index.php file that holds all my JavaScript files as well as my CSS files that need to be included for the entire application.
This is my HTML code -
(It is an Angular template view that includes the HTML button) -
<input type ="button" value="Say Hello!" onClick="showAndroidToast('Hello Android!')" />
This is my index.php file that holds all the JS/CSS files -
<html xmlns:ng="http://angularjs.org" id="ng-app" ng-app="myapp">
<head>
(various scripts and stylesheets included here)
</head>
<body>
....
....
<script type="text/javascript">
function showAndroidToast(toast) {
alert(toast);
Android.showToast(toast);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
The onClick is definitely calling the showAndroidToast function since the alert pops up the message 'Hello Android' - but I am just not able to link it to the Android function 'showToast'. I've followed the docs on Android and various answers on Stackoverflow and have done exactly the same thing as asked - but still end up getting the Uncaught Reference error! What am I missing out on/ or doing wrong????
This is how the logcat error looks -
I/chromium: [INFO:CONSOLE(243)] "Uncaught ReferenceError: Android is not defined", source: ..
Update 1 :
After referring the following SO answers :
1. Can a java file have more than one class?
2. Android 4.2.1, WebView and javascript interface breaks
I created a new Java class called WebAppInterface and shifted the public class from this code snippet (within my main class) into the WebAppInterface.java class.
I also changed my Minimum APK version to 17.
Still facing the same issue. Any help would be appreciated.

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<head>
</head>
<body>
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<script>
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I specified the language explicitely and I tried it with the crosswalk framework but that also didn't solve the problem.
SpeechSynthesisUtterance is not supported by android webview
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesisUtterance
Although SpeechSynthesis is supported but since SpeechSynthesis work based on the SpeechSynthesisUtterance object passed into it, it won't all still work.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechSynthesis

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So for that I followed this
and designed on server side...
I have Given this
at JavaScript
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But its not working since I have using multiple pages or frame in one webview...
its missing JS value... How ever form server its opening scanner at on-click... but after scanning the value is not passing to the input box with JS I am getting this error.....
I/chromium: [INFO:CONSOLE(1)] "Uncaught ReferenceError: actfromAnd is not defined", source: (1)
Update
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2)I also tried with same in a static Page with JS seperate page
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Add this script in Web-service at your Parent Menu which has your iframe or iframes
<script>
function actfromAnd(msg){
window.frames['yourExactframe'].document.getElementById("brcd").value = msg;
}
</script>
If you are using same in more than one frame then declare your frame name globally
I tried your Code Working Fine... In my example Frame Hope It works fine for you
Nice question....
You should execute the javascript when the page is loaded
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#Override
public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
webview.loadUrl("javascript:myFunction()");
}
});
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Calling an ActiveX method from javascript in Outlook webview

SO community
I'm currently writing a project to integrate some custom views and forms in Outlook.
The idea is to create an Outlook extension connected to our ERP.
As discovered in this sample project (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa479346.aspx), one technique is to build an ActiveX component and load it from a lightweight local html page, like this :
<html>
<body rightmargin = '0' leftmargin ='0' topmargin ='0' bottommargin = '0' onload='OnBodyLoad()'>
<object classid='clsid:f746a8b6-3659-4f4c-8518-6336187854f2' ID='MyView' VIEWASTEXT width='100%' height='100%'/>
<script>
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view.Initialize(oApp);
}
catch(err) {
alert(err.description);
}
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
As you can see the Outlook application instance is passed to the Initialize() method for further access from the ActiveX (this is the important point for me).
The C# class looks like this :
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComVisible(true)]
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.Guid("F746A8B6-3659-4F4C-8518-6336187854F2")]
public partial class MyView : UserControl
{
public MyView()
:base()
{
Application.EnableVisualStyles();
InitializeComponent();
}
public String Str { get; set; }
public void Initialize(Object app)
{
MessageBox.Show("Initialized");
//MessageBox.Show(app.Version);
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show(this, "It works!");
}
}
It's signed and registered with RegAsm.
When I load it in IE, it works like a charm. I get the message "Initialized" at startup, and when I click on button1, the message "It works" pops up too.
BUT (there is of course a 'but' :) when I load this page in Outlook (folder properties / home page), the ActiveX component gets loaded and visible, but the Initialize call throws this error: "Object doesn't support this property or method". Clicking the button1 works.
Trying to assign something to the property from Str with javascript fails in Outlook too, and works in IE.
Did anyone here face the same problem, and knows what I'm missing?
Many thanks in advance,
Nicolas

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