is it possible for Accompanist WebView to follow a...

# compose

[Peter Mandeljc]

is it possible for Accompanist WebView to follow app theme?

[Jakub Syty]

What do you mean by that? Are you talking about system light/dark setting?

[Peter Mandeljc]

also that yeah

[Jakub Syty]

looking at the code i don't think it's implemented

[Jakub Syty]

but i think it might follow the app "dark mode", docs here seems to suggest that: https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/layout/webapps/dark-theme

[Jakub Syty]

but other than dark mode - i don't know how do you expect to follow app theme

[Peter Mandeljc]

I was only thinking about basic background and text color

[Peter Mandeljc]

dunno, neither Accompanist WebView or WebView View doesn't seem to go into dark mode. I can force it tough.

[Jakub Syty]

Background and text colors are fully website domain. You can inject javascript into WebView and modify colors this way, but WebView never will pass anything like this by itself

[Peter Mandeljc]

I see. I basically have a html text content, that I need to render. Any suggestions?

[Jakub Syty]

You can load html directly: https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/layout/webapps/load-local-content

[Jakub Syty]

you can inject css that is based on your app theme

[Jakub Syty]

but i doubt there is something ready to use in that regard

[Jakub Syty]

or, you could load html in old TextView

[Jakub Syty]

https://stackoverflow.com/a/2116191/939133

[ephemient]

How complex is the HTML? in a private project, I have a parser for the subset of HTML that we use into AnnotatedString, and I've seen other people use Android's HTML to spannable then convert that

[Jakub Syty]

and then wrap this TextView into composable AndroidView

[Peter Mandeljc]

I've already tried out Html.fromHtml() stuff. I guess there is no lazy solution atm 🙂

[Peter Mandeljc]

I'm looking at what simplest option is atm

[Peter Mandeljc]

How complex is the HTML?

Not that complex, some titles, lists and links. Should be able to convert it I guess

[ephemient]

most of the complexity in my private project results from having to deal with inline CSS and custom classes. if you don't have that, it's really not that hard

[Peter Mandeljc]

ok, will think about doing that. Thanks for info guys 🍺