Re: viewing local htm files on Android device

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).