I don't know Java especially on android that well.
I asked chatGPT this Question:
how do I use the PrintManager object in Java? Where does the output text belong?
It returned this plus an explanation for the code. I'm guessing this line is where the object is told what to print.
Everyone has been kind to me in answering my starting out questions so I thought I'd give it a try.
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.print.PrintManager;
import android.print.PrintDocumentAdapter;
import android.print.PrintJob;
import android.print.PrintAttributes;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;
import android.print.PrintDocumentInfo;
public class MyActivity extends Activity {
// ...
private void printDocument() {
// Get a reference to the PrintManager system service
PrintManager printManager = (PrintManager) getSystemService(Context.PRINT_SERVICE);
// Provide a name for the print job
String jobName = "MyPrintJob";
// Create a WebView and load the content you want to print
WebView webView = new WebView(this);
webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
webView.loadData("<p>This is the content to be printed.</p>", "text/html", "UTF-8");
// Create a PrintDocumentAdapter to handle the printing process
PrintDocumentAdapter printAdapter = webView.createPrintDocumentAdapter();
// Start the print job
PrintJob printJob = printManager.print(jobName, printAdapter, new PrintAttributes.Builder().build());
// Check if the print job has successfully started
if (printJob.isStarted()) {
// Retrieve information about the printed document
PrintDocumentInfo info = printJob.getInfo();
// Get the output text of the printed document
String outputText = info.getName();
// Do something with the output text
// ...
}
}
// ...
}
