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From: Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: viewing local htm files on Android device
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:58:13 +0100
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Dave Royal wrote:

> In the absence of an authoritative answer, and based on some
>   googling (I am not a developer of Android apps), I'll offer a
>   guess.
> 
> I suspect that for the content URI in the shortcut (which is a
>   pointer to a local resource, and AFAICS not the same as afile://
>   URI)

In a similar case, where we load a lot of documents (mixed .pdf and 
..html) onto an android tablet for use in a vehicle, we ended up 
installing a local web server on the tablet (and even paying the 
developer for a few tweaks to it).