WebView on Windows Store and Windows Phone

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Hi

Please tell me how to embed the WebView with special address to Unity3d application for Windows Store and Windows Phone

Thanks

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Hello, just to be sure. Are you talking about url Scheme?

Best regards,

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Well, really I need to embed this class in Unity3d application.

So, there are an issues

  • I’m not able to create web view, without xaml;
  • Unity3d window overlaps the WebView;
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What exactly your issue is?
In order to use WebView you most certainly need XAML. Which version of Unity do you use? We’ve dropped D3D support since 4.5.
You certainly can mix Unity and XAML. There are certain rules and limitations, but in general it works fine.

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Hi!

At first, thank you a lot for your feedback

What exactly your issue is?
I just want to show web content (html page) on the Windows Store Unity3d application and Windows Phone device

Which version of Unity do you use?
4.3.2.

You certainly can mix Unity and XAML. There are certain rules and limitations, but in general it works fine.

Thanks, I still trying to implement this. I’ll post here when I finish with this task :slight_smile:

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So, even now I cannot find a way to create WebView over the Unity3d screen. Is there any solution ?

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What exactly are you doing? Have you tried putting various XAML controls on your page? Are they visible?

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What exactly are you doing?
Try to create WebView without xaml files.

Have you tried putting various XAML controls on your page? Are they visible?
I want to add WebView control on pages by next step:

  • Create plugin for Windows Phone. In this plugin I want to create WebView, not using xaml. Pass to this WebView url. Handle all events from WebView in this plugin.

So, for now, I cannot find the code for creating WebView without xaml files

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I got this working without creating xaml files - but I don’t think I’m allowed to post code I wrote at work.

The basic gist of my approach was to programmatically instantiate a
Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.Primitives.Popup and add a
Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.WebView control to it. Then use the WebView.Navigate(…) method to get the WebView to render an arbitrary web page.

The only thing I found a little surprising was that I did end up having to explicitly specify the height and width of the WebView using the WebView.Height and WebView.Width properties (the PopUp should inherit/use the sizes of its contained control/child).

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Hi

I am also trying to acheive this, did you solve it yet @kit ?

@source_transformer could you maybe share a bit more information about it, like how do you instatiate the Popup and add the webview to it? Is it done in a seperate thread?

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Have you tried this and are getting errors/exceptions?

Just use the classes I cited above for WS 8.1 (there are equivalent ones for WP 8.0 - WebBrowser for example) and you can either use the Unity method for getting onto the UI thread (Unity - Manual: AppCallbacks class reference or UnityEngine.WSA.Application.TryInvokeOnUIThread(…)) or use the Windows Store way (Windows.ApplicationModel.Core.CoreApplication.MainView.CoreWindow.Dispatcher) or the Windows Phone way (System.Windows.Deployment.Current).

I’d recommend posting the issues you’re having with getting this working - perhaps with a code snippet.

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Hi @hrjunker ,

Nope, we implemented his window by adding custom unity3d UI. And processed all events like in html page. So this is not a solution at all :slight_smile:

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here is windows & windows store webview unity plugin.

i hope these help.