Android webview - how to skip url? - android

I have a webview with custom webview client. I'm intercepting requests with:
#Override
public WebResourceResponse shouldInterceptRequest(WebView view, String url) {
// ...
}
sometimes I'm getting informations about custom events from webview in a form of a link:
xyz://do-something
When it happens I want webview to ignore it. But 'shouldInterceptRequest' has to return something and when I'm returning 'null' instead of my page it shows: 'unknown url xyz://do-something'. How can I deal with that? How can I intercept the link but disable action on webview side?

You just need to do a string comparison from the site that you are in and the site that you want to go to.
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
if (Uri.parse(url).getHost().equals("www.example.com")) {
// This is my web site, so do not override; let my WebView load the page
return false;
}
// Otherwise, the link is not for a page on my site, so launch another Activity that handles URLs
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(intent);
return true;
}

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I'm trying to implement the following behavior into my Android App.
The app is a native app with some parts using WebView, in this WebView there is the possibility of using different payment methods.
If the user has the app of that bank installed I want to be able to open the corresponding app. In some cases, the website loaded into the WebView launch a specific intent:// that I can easily intercept and try to redirect the user to the app, but for the cases where the website use the new Android App link I'm not able to intercept them because they are normal https:// calls.
I tried to load the Android App link into Chrome and this way the app is opened.
My question at this point is how I can replicate the behavior of Chrome into my WebView??
I didn't find that much informations on this specific case besides the Android Documentation
Thanks for your help :)
You can intercept the url click by using custom WebViewClient for the webview.
1)Set the custom webview client for the webview
2)Override the below method and return true (you can do this based on particular url also. )
shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, WebResourceRequest request)
3)Override below method and handle the click and start the activity using either package name or playstore url with intent.
public void onLoadResource (WebView view,
String url)
WebView mWebView;
WebViewClient customWebClient = new WebViewClient(){
#Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, WebResourceRequest request){
//This can be modified based on the url . URL can be retrieved using request.getUrl()
return true;
}
#Override
public void onLoadResource(WebView view, String url){
if( url.equals("") ){
// launch playstore activity
final String appPackageName = "package name of the application"
try {
startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("market://details?id=" + appPackageName)));
} catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException anfe) {
startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=" + appPackageName)));
}
}
}
}
mWebView.setWebViewClient(customWebClient);

How can i make a link to open in browser instead of WebView App

I created a WebView App and it's working fine but there is a link which I want it to open in the default browser instead of that app what can I do.
Add a WebViewClient to your webView (if not already added) and then override shouldOverrideUrlLoading () method:
webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
#Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView webview, String url) {
if (url.contains(myUrl)) {
Intent intent= new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, myUrl);
context.startActivity(intent);
return true;
} else {
return super.shouldOverrideUrlLoading(webview, url);
}
}
}
This way your are telling your webview to not continue loading a specific url. Instead, launch the proper application (mostly a browser) to handle the url.

open an "ACTION_VIEW" with intercepted POST headers

Following as reference this post
webview, download file on finish prepared document
I think of a possible solution, but as it is not the same doubt.
Them my possible solution as "intercept" POST header in concrete and redirect to intent.ACTION_VIEW
But can't find some example.
#Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
if (Uri.parse(url).getHost().equals("www.example.com")) {
// This is my web site, so do not override; let my WebView load the page
return false;
}
// Otherwise, the link is not for a page on my site, so launch another Activity that handles URLs
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(intent);
return true;
}

Android: unable to pass a url in webview

i am trying to pass a url which start with www.example.com/xxxxxxx in my webview it can be anything in the place of xxxxxxx. see the code you will understand
private class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
#Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
if (Uri.parse(url).getHost().equals("http://www.example.com"+"*")) {
// This is my web site, so do not override; let my WebView load the page
return false;
}
// Otherwise, the link is not for a page on my site, so launch another Activity that handles URLs
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(intent);
return true;
}
}
i want to pass any url from my website only else open it in default browser.
Uri.getHost() return the host from the authority, you should try to use if (Uri.parse(url).getHost().equals("www.example.com")) or if (Uri.parse(url).getHost().equals("example.com")).
Also, as a good practice, you should reverse your equals() statement like this: "example.com".equals(Uri.parse(url).getHost()) as you know that "example.com" will never be null and, as such, never throw a NullPointerException.

webview manual url redirection (manually set url's to show and skip)

Im using a webview to display a website.
The page iam opening using loadurl method is the login page,
on successful login redirection occurs to a particular page .
I want to skip that page i.e dont want to show that page rather show the webpage after that
eg If my webview starts with webpage A
on login success it shows webpage B
and then next page is webpage C
i want after Login success in page A it should go automatically to webpage C
current code im using
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
if (Uri.parse(url)
.getHost()
.equals("https://www.test.com")) {
web.loadUrl("https://www.test1.com");
}
return false;
}
so any tips/pointers as to how i do this?
thanks
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You just need to do a string comparison from the site that you are in and the site that you want to go to.
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
if (Uri.parse(url).getHost().equals("www.example.com")) {
// This is my web site, so do not override; let my WebView load the page
return false;
}
// Otherwise, the link is not for a page on my site, so launch another Activity that handles URLs
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(intent);
return true;
}

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