Friday, October 26, 2018

Prevent WebView.loadUrl() to open system browser

It's a simple example to load my a web page in WebView.

package com.blogspot.android_er.myapplicationwebview;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        WebView myWebView = findViewById(R.id.webview);
        myWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        myWebView.loadUrl("http://android-er.blogspot.com/");
    }
}


But, when the  myWebView.loadUrl("http://android-er.blogspot.com/") run, the app ask to load in system browser, not the in my WebView.

To solve it (work for me), set WebViewClient before loadUrl.

package com.blogspot.android_er.myapplicationwebview;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        WebView myWebView = findViewById(R.id.webview);
        myWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

        myWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());

        myWebView.loadUrl("http://android-er.blogspot.com/");
    }
}



Layout XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity"
    android:orientation="vertical">

    <TextView
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="android-er.blogspot.com"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

    <WebView
        android:id="@+id/webview"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        />

</LinearLayout>

uses-permission of "android.permission.INTERNET" is need to load from internet.

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