Web Setting: Managing the Setting States of the Web View

This tutorial demonstrates how you can manage Web view properties.

This feature is supported in mobile applications only.

Warm-up

Become familiar with the Web Setting API basics by learning about:

• Setting a User Agent for a Running Application

  Set a Web view user agent string.

• Deleting Web View Cookies

  Delete Web view cookies.

Setting a User Agent for a Running Application

Learning how to set a user agent string to perform tasks is a basic Web setting management skill:

1. Use the setUserAgentString() method to set a Web view user agent string:

   function successCallback()
   {
      console.log("The requested user agent string has just been set successfully." + navigator.userAgent);
   }
   
   /* Set a user agent string */
   var userAgent = "CUSTOM_USER_AGENT_STRING";
   tizen.websetting.setUserAgentString(userAgent, successCallback);
   

Deleting Web View Cookies

Learning how to delete Web view cookies is a basic Web setting management skill:

1. Use the removeAllCookies() method to delete all the Web view cookies:

   function CookiesRemovedSuccessCallback()
   {
      console.log("The cookies saved for your application have just been removed.");
   }
   
   tizen.websetting.removeAllCookies(CookiesRemovedSuccessCallback);