Accessing the currently displayed website of the Android browser

Question

Hi stackies,

is it possible to programmatically access the website that is currently displayed within the Android browser?
As far as I know the native Browser doesn't handle plugins (please correct me if I'm wrong), so I thought that reading the browser cache would be an option.

Is there a more sophisticated way to get the currently displayed HTML?

Thanks in advance!
S.

Answer 1

is it possible to programmatically access the website that is currently displayed within the Android browser?

That would be a security violation, so, no. Also bear in mind that there are several Web browsers for Android.

As far as I know the native Browser doesn't handle plugins (please correct me if I'm wrong)

The standard browser app supports plugins, but not ones downloaded on the fly. So, for example, it supports the Flash plugin (on Android 2.2+), but you have to install Flash separately first.