Re: OT: How to load and view html on Android phone?

On 2015-03-20 12:43, Ed wrote:
> https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/40771/local-files-revisited-opening-local-html-files-file-path-to-file-in-chrome

On Android, storage is weird. Each installed application has its own
"internal storage" directory which only it can read and write.
Applications usually request "read/write external storage" permission as
well. "External storage"[0] is typically a FAT32 partition, and in the
android device in the URL above, that partition is mounted on /sdcard
.[1]

You *should* be able to have HTML document trees saved to this external
storage partition and get to them with file:/// URLs. Firefox on a real
computer can do this with most pages if you go to a page and do
File->Save Page As and select "web page, complete" from the dropdown
which defaults to "web page, HTML only". This'll create a NAME.html
file and a NAME_files directory full of images/CSS/JS/other. Then
transfer NAME* to somewhere on your android device's external storage,
and put a bookmark to file:///mnt/extsd/my_html/NAME.html inside your
favorite android browser. Nothing server-side will work in this case;
hope you don't need that stuff.

[0] Historically an SD card, but "new and improved" devices may not
have microSD card slots and fake it with some non-removable internal
flash memory.
[1] Mine's on /mnt/extsd/ . YDeviceMV.

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