84.2 Printing Dynamic HTML Content

The first stage of this tutorial is to add code to the project to create some HTML content and send it to the Printing framework in the form of a print job.

Begin by locating the MainActivity.kt file (located in the Project tool window under app -> java -> com.ebookfrenzy.htmlprint) and loading it into the editing panel. Once loaded, modify the code so that it reads as outlined in the following listing:

package com.ebookfrenzy.htmlprint

 

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity

import android.os.Bundle

import android.print.PrintAttributes

import android.print.PrintManager

import android.webkit.WebResourceRequest

import android.webkit.WebView

import android.webkit.WebViewClient

import android.content.Context

 

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

 

    private var myWebView: WebView? = null

 

    override fun onCreate...