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WebViewClient not calling shouldOverrideUrlLoading

The problem is rather simple.
In the application we want to keep track of the current url being displayed. For that we use shouldOverrideUrlLoading callback from the WebViewClient by saving the url into a class field for every update. Here is the relevant code:
mWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
mWebView.getSettings().setDomStorageEnabled(true);
mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
#Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
mCurrentUrl = url;
// If we don't return false then any redirect (like redirecting to the mobile
// version of the page) or any link click will open the web browser (like an
// implicit intent).
return false;
}
#Override
public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
super.onPageFinished(view, url);
...
}
});
mWebView.loadUrl(mInitialUrl);
However, there is at least one scenario, where the callback never gets triggered and the mCurrentUrl field doesnt get updated.
The url: https://m.pandora.net/es-es/products/bracelets/556000
Last updated url (shouldOverrideUrlLoading never gets called when clicking the product): https://m.pandora.net/es-es/products/bracelets
I have tried with callbacks like onPageStarted(), but the url also gets filtered and there doesn't seem to be an accessible one upstream since its protected code.
Reading android documentation about WebView I found this:
https://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/migrating.html#URLs
The new WebView applies additional restrictions when requesting resources and resolving links that use a custom URL scheme. For example, if you implement callbacks such as shouldOverrideUrlLoading() or shouldInterceptRequest(), then WebView invokes them only for valid URLs.
But still doesnt make sense since the above url is generic and should meet the standard.
Any alternative or solution to this?

When you click a product on that web page, it loads the new content in with JavaScript and updates the visible URL in the address bar using the HTML5 History APIs.
From the above MDN article:
This will cause the URL bar to display http://mozilla.org/bar.html, but won't cause the browser to load bar.html or even check that bar.html exists.
These are sometimes called single-page applications. Since the actual loaded page doesn’t change, the WebView callback for page loads isn’t called.
In case you know precisely what kind of HTTP request you want to intercept, you could use the shouldInterceptRequest callback that gets called for each request. It’s likely that the web application loads some data from an API, for example when a product is shown, which you could then detect.
If detecting this isn’t possible, but you’re in control of the web application, you could use the Android JavaScript interface to invoke methods within the Android application directly from the web page.
If you’re not in control of the loaded page, you could still try to inject a local JavaScript file into the web page and observe when the history APIs are used, then call methods in your Android application over the JS interface. I tried observing these events in Chrome with the method described in the previous link and it seems to work fine.

Maybe this helps someone, although the signature in the question is correct, but Android Studio suggests the following method signature:
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, WebResourceRequest request) {
which then never called. It took me a while to notice that the right signature is:
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
Sorry if this not 100% fit the question, but I believe this may help someone in the same situation. It's not always easy to notice that the second parameter is different.

Please omit mWebView.getSettings().setDomStorageEnabled(true);
Then again try, if a new url found then will invoke shouldOverrideUrl()

I had the same problem like you, and I've finished with extending of WebViewChromeClient with listening for callback to
public void onReceivedTitle(WebView view, String title)
mWebView.setWebChromeClient(mSWWebChromeClient);
private WebChromeClient mSWWebChromeClient = new WebChromeClient() {
#Override
public void onReceivedTitle(WebView view, String title) {
super.onReceivedTitle(view, title);
if (!view.getUrl().equals(mCurrentUrl)) {
mCurrentUrl = view.getUrl();
//make something
}
}
};

For me the problem was below line -
mWebView.getSettings().setSupportMultipleWindows(true);
After removing it shouldOverrideUrlLoading was being called.

after stumbling on this problem and searching for solutions, I've found the one that worked perfectly for me
https://stackoverflow.com/a/56395424/10506087
override fun doUpdateVisitedHistory(view: WebView?, url: String?, isReload: Boolean) {
// your code here
super.doUpdateVisitedHistory(view, url, isReload)
}

Another approach you can try: Catch the url by javascript side. Initialize your webView with this:
webView.addJavascriptInterface(new WebAppInterface(getActivity()), "Android");
After page is completely loaded (You can use an algorithm to check this like this https://stackoverflow.com/a/6199854/4198633), then:
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
webView.evaluateJavascript("(function() {return window.location.href;})", new ValueCallback<String>() {
#Override
public void onReceiveValue(String url) {
//do your scheme with variable "url"
}
});
} else {
webView.loadUrl("javascript:Android.getURL(window.location.href);");
}
And declare your WebAppInterface:
public class WebAppInterface {
Activity mContext;
public WebAppInterface(Activity c) {
mContext = c;
}
#JavascriptInterface
public void getURL(final String url) {
mContext.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
//do your scheme with variable "url" in UIThread side. Over here you can call any method inside your activity/fragment
}
});
}
}
You can do something like that to get url, or anything else inside the page.

Add
webView.getSetting().setMixedContentMode(WebSettings.MIXED_CONTENT_ALWAYS_ALLOW);
then shouldOverrideUrl will be triggered.

onProgressChanged is always triggered when reloading, loading new page with userclick or XmlHttpRequest.
Compare the URL of previous load and the current load, you'll know it's reloading or loading a new page. This works perfect in my single page Web App.
First declare a global variable to store last URL.
String strLastUrl = null;
Then override onProgressChanged(WebView view, int progress)
mWebView.setWebChromeClient(new MyWebChromeClient(){
#Override
public void onProgressChanged(WebView view, int progress) {
if (progress == 100) {
//A fully loaded url will come here
String StrNewUrl = view.getUrl();
if(TextUtils.equals(StrNewUrl,strLastUrl)){
//same page was reloaded, not doing anything
}else{
//a new page was loaded,write this new url to variable
strLastUrl = StrNewUrl;
//do your work here
Log.d("TAG", "A new page or xhr loaded, the new url is : " + strLastUrl);
}
}
super.onProgressChanged(view, progress);
}
});
I've also tried above solutions, but most of them have issue in my case:
doUpdateVisitedHistory sometimes can not return correct url after "#" made by XmlHttpRequest.
My case is a single page web App. The web App uses javascript with
xhr to display new page when user click an item. For example, user is
currently at http://example.com/myapp/index.php , after clicking, the
browser url becomes
http://example.com/myapp/index.php#/myapp/query.php?info=1, but in
this case, doUpdateVisitedHistory returns
http://example.com/myapp//myapp/
onReceivedTitle doesn't work in my case because the response retrieved by XMLHttpRequest does not have <title></title> tag.
The JavascriptInterface method also works, but I'm afraid it will cause
security related issues with javascript.

public class AndroidMobileAppSampleActivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
String mCurrentUrl="";
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
WebView mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.mainWebView);
WebSettings webSettings = mWebView.getSettings();
webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
mWebView.setWebViewClient(new MyCustomWebViewClient());
mWebView.setScrollBarStyle(View.SCROLLBARS_INSIDE_OVERLAY);
mWebView.loadUrl("https://m.pandora.net/es-es/products/bracelets/556000");
}
private class MyCustomWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
#Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
mCurrentUrl = url;
Log.i("mCurrentUrl",""+mCurrentUrl);
view.loadUrl(url);
return true;
}
}
}
try this one...

Android WebView Not Loading Correctly

I'm having a few issues regarding the WebViewClient on Android.
The site works perfectly on any mobile browser. Including the ChromeViewClient that I have set for debugging purposes.
And the website that I am loading does not have any issues or errors when using any other mobile browser. Using Chrome's inspector and selecting a device, using as mentioned the native Android browser and also tested on an iOS WebView Component to make sure.
The WebViewClient renders "parts" of the website. Images on one page and not the other, buttons that can not be clicked, a slider that does not work, etc. The website that I am loading is very JavaScript and HTML5 intensive. I am completely out of ideas of how to debug this issue further, are there certain JavaScript libraries that the WebViewClient can't load properly? Is there any other method you would recommend I implement while trying to debug this issue? Or am I missing some really small thing that will make me hit my head against the table?
These are the JS files we are using on the website:
bootstrap.min.js;
jquery.min.js;
swiper.jquery.min.js;
slideout.min.js;
owl.carousel.min.js.
Code for the WebView:
this.webview = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView);
webview.setScrollBarStyle(WebView.SCROLLBARS_OUTSIDE_OVERLAY);
WebSettings settings = webview.getSettings();
settings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webview.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient(){
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url){
view.loadUrl(url);
firstLoad = true;
return true;
}
// when the page is finished loading
public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url){}
public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl){
Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "Could Not load. " + description, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
alertDialog.setTitle("Error");
alertDialog.setMessage(description);
alertDialog.setButton("OK", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener(){
public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which){
return;
}
});
alertDialog.show();
}
});
webview.loadUrl("mywebsite.com");

I got it working by setDomStorageEnabled(true);
You need to set this when using local storage.

Denied starting an intent without a user gesture Webview Android

Trying to redirect local html page in android webview using Javascript redirect, gets denied starting an intent in Logcat:
Testing on android 5.1.1
document.location = "index.html";
Denied starting an intent without a user gesture, URI:
file:///android_asset/index.html

I read the documentation in 1,000 attempts Android.developer and this was my solution
I do not know if you understand, I speak Spanish
webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
#Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
return false;
}
});

This worked for me:
webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());

There are few issues here.
From newest androids, the WebView and Chrome Client is separated application which can be automatically updated without user intention.
From Chrome x >= 25 version, they changed how loading url is working in android application which is using webview component. https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/intents Looks like they are blocking changing url without user gesture and launched from JavaScript timers
Solution here is to force user to activate URL change, for example on button click.
Also, you can override method mentioned above "shouldOverrideUrlLoading" in WebView client.

As alternate, i figured out was to add addJavascriptInterface each button click event fire action to JavascriptInterface
webView.addJavascriptInterface(new java2JSAgent(), "java2JSAgentVar"); //webView webview object
public class java2JSAgent
{
#JavascriptInterface
public String getContacts()
{
String jsonResponse = "{result:'redirected'}";
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
webView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/index.html");
}
});
return jsonResponse;
}
}
might not be a good approach but atleast its working :-)
Thanks

Android WebView Facebook Login (popup/redirection issues)

how is everyone?
I am working on a simple mobile application utilizing WebView. My website utilizes a layout giving it the appearance of a native app. I also allow users to login with their facebook account into my website. Here are my scenarios
** WORKS ** From PC/Chrome: Can access the mobile site URL, login with facebook which opens the pop-up dialog to either A.) Login, or B.) if user is FB logged in, prompt user to accept
** WORKS ** From Phone/Chrome: Can access the mobile site URL, login with facebook which opens a new tab with A.) Login, or B.) if user is FB logged in, prompt user to accept
** PROBLEM! ** From Phone/APK: Loads website in WebView, click login with facebook, opens facebook login page in the webview, but once I enter details and attempt to login, nothing happens. If I go to my home screen and reopen the app, it logs me in using the details I previously submitted
So basically what I am saying is that in the APP, once I leave my website URL and go to facebook's website to enter facebook details to login with it and press login -- it doesn't redirect back to my website for some reason. I've been plucking my hairs trying to find a solution to this, I've also searched extensively on here and other places but have not been able to find a workable solution, I'm sure many other people may be experiencing similar issues with facebook or other services
Here is my code (was originally much more simple, however I am now utilizing what I found in another topic covering this issue, however it still does not work -- I'd also like to mention that with this portion of code that I found, when TARGET_URL is loaded from a phone, the phone will redirect it to the mobile version of the website, which, since it's how the code functions, causes it to open up in a browser instead of my WebView)
I'm totally confused =/
public class MainActivity extends Activity {
/* URL saved to be loaded after fb login */
private static final String target_url="http://www.moneygirlsmusic.tv/app/index.php?do=/mobile/";
private static final String target_url_prefix="www.moneygirlsmusic.tv/app/index.php?do=/mobile/";
private Context mContext;
private WebView mWebview;
private WebView mWebviewPop;
private FrameLayout mContainer;
private long mLastBackPressTime = 0;
#Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
// final View controlsView =
// findViewById(R.id.fullscreen_content_controls);
CookieManager cookieManager = CookieManager.getInstance();
cookieManager.setAcceptCookie(true);
mWebview = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
//mWebviewPop = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webviewPop);
mContainer = (FrameLayout) findViewById(R.id.webview_frame);
WebSettings webSettings = mWebview.getSettings();
webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webSettings.setAppCacheEnabled(true);
webSettings.setJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically(true);
webSettings.setSupportMultipleWindows(true);
mWebview.setWebViewClient(new UriWebViewClient());
mWebview.setWebChromeClient(new UriChromeClient());
mWebview.loadUrl(target_url);
mContext=this.getApplicationContext();
}
private class UriWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
#Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
String host = Uri.parse(url).getHost();
Log.d("shouldOverrideUrlLoading", url);
if (host.equals(target_url_prefix))
{
// This is my web site, so do not override; let my WebView load
// the page
if(mWebviewPop!=null)
{
mWebviewPop.setVisibility(View.GONE);
mContainer.removeView(mWebviewPop);
mWebviewPop=null;
}
return false;
}
if(host.equals("m.facebook.com") || host.equals("www.facebook.com"))
{
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;
}
#Override
public void onReceivedSslError(WebView view, SslErrorHandler handler,
SslError error) {
Log.d("onReceivedSslError", "onReceivedSslError");
//super.onReceivedSslError(view, handler, error);
}
}
class UriChromeClient extends WebChromeClient {
#Override
public boolean onCreateWindow(WebView view, boolean isDialog,
boolean isUserGesture, Message resultMsg) {
mWebviewPop = new WebView(mContext);
mWebviewPop.setVerticalScrollBarEnabled(false);
mWebviewPop.setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(false);
mWebviewPop.setWebViewClient(new UriWebViewClient());
mWebviewPop.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
mWebviewPop.getSettings().setSavePassword(false);
mWebviewPop.setLayoutParams(new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT,
ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT));
mContainer.addView(mWebviewPop);
WebView.WebViewTransport transport = (WebView.WebViewTransport) resultMsg.obj;
transport.setWebView(mWebviewPop);
resultMsg.sendToTarget();
return true;
}
#Override
public void onCloseWindow(WebView window) {
Log.d("onCloseWindow", "called");
}
}
I forgot to include my previous resources used to try to figure this out
Making facebook login work with an Android Webview
Making facebook login work with an Android Webview
Android WebView for Facebook Like Button
Android WebView for Facebook Like Button

In android 6 running in some mobiles you should add this to your java code to redirect . otherwise it doesn't redirect and nothing happens .
webview.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
#Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
return false;
}
});

shouldOverrideUrlLoading in WebView for Android not running

-Edit: Solution Found-
Figured it out after some heavy searching - one person (I literally mean one) said they instead used onPageLoad(); which worked perfectly for my purposes. The difference is that onPageLoad() runs later than shouldOverrideUrlLoading, but It doesn't make a difference in my code.
I'm trying to set up Twitter authorization with OAuth for an Android app, and thus far I can successfully send the user to the authorization URL, however, what I am trying to do now is intercept the redirect to the callback (which would just lead to a 404 error, our callback URL isn't going to have an associated page on our servers). What I'm attempting to do is check if the URL is our callback, then extract the OAuth Verifier from the URL. I setup my WebView with this code:
view = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.twitterWbVw);
view.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient(){
#Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView wView, String url)
{
String urlHolder;
String[] verifExtrctr;
urlHolder = url.substring(0, url.indexOf('?'));
System.out.println("url");
if(urlHolder.equalsIgnoreCase(CALLBACK_URL))
{
verifExtrctr = urlHolder.split("?");
verifExtrctr = verifExtrctr[2].split("=");
if(verifExtrctr[0].equalsIgnoreCase("oauth_verifier"))
{
params[5] = verifExtrctr[1];
return true;
}
else
{
System.out.println("Inocorrect callback URL format.");
}
}
else
{
wView.loadUrl(url);
}
return true;
}
});
view.loadUrl(urlAuthorize.toExternalForm());
Thing is even System.out.println("url");(which I'm using to debug)doesn't run! So I'm pretty much dry on ideas, and can't find anyone with a similar problem. The authorization URL goes through fine, and I can successfully authorize the app, however the redirect to the callback URL for some reason never get's intercepted. Any help would be appreciated, this is in my onResume() if that matters.

After some research I conclude that despite what most of the tutorials out there say, shouldOverrideUrlLoading() does not get called when:
You load a URL like
loadUrl("http://www.google.com");
The browser redirects the user automatically via an HTTP Redirect. (See the comment from #hmac below regarding redirects)
It does however, get called when you you click on a link inside a webpage inside the webview. IIRC the twitter authorization uses an HTTP Redirect.. Bummer, this would be helpful if it worked how all the tutorials say it does. I think this is from a very old version the Android API...
You might want to consider overriding the onProgressChanged method of a WebChromeClient like here: How to listen for a WebView finishing loading a URL? or the onPageFinished() method of the WebViewClient.

I've found what I think is a reasonable way to do this thanks to the previous answer and comments pointing me in the right direction.
What I did is override onPageStarted and onPageFinished in a custom WebViewClient.
The code goes something like this...
#Override
public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
if (pendingUrl == null) {
pendingUrl = url;
}
}
#Override
public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
if (!url.equals(pendingUrl)) {
Log.d(TAG, "Detected HTTP redirect " + pendingUrl + "->" + url);
pendingUrl = null;
}
}
And of course along with the Log.d you would put any specific code you want to run upon detecting the redirect.

For people stumbling across this, when the method shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, WebResourceRequest request) is not being called, look up your minSdkVersion. If you use below API 24 you should use shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url).