WebView link click open default browser

Question

Right now I have an app that loads a webview and all the clicks are kept within the app  What I would like to do is when a certain link  for example  http   www google com is clicked within the app it opens the default browser  If anyone has some ideas please let me know

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you can use Intent for this   Intent browserIntent   new Intent  android intent action VIEW   Uri parse  your Url     startActivity browserIntent

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WebView webview    WebView  findViewById R id webview   webview loadUrl https   whatoplay com     You don t have to include this code     webview setWebViewClient new WebViewClient      Instead use below code  webview setWebViewClient new WebViewClient       public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading WebView view  String url          String url2  quot https   whatoplay com  quot           all links  with in ur site will be open inside the webview         links that start ur domain example http   www example com       if  url    null  amp  amp  url startsWith url2          return false                 all links that points outside the site will be open in a normal android browser     else             view getContext   startActivity        new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  Uri parse url           return true

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As this is one of the top questions about external redirect in WebView  here is a  quot modern quot  solution on Kotlin  webView webViewClient   object   WebViewClient             override fun shouldOverrideUrlLoading              view  WebView               request  WebResourceRequest             Boolean               val url   request  url    return false               you can do checks here e g  url host equals to target one             startActivity Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  url               return true

User · Answer

You only need to add the following line  yourWebViewName setWebViewClient new WebViewClient       Check this for official documentation

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I had to do the same thing today and I have found a very useful answer on StackOverflow that I want to share here in case someone else needs it   Source  from sven   webView setWebViewClient new WebViewClient        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading WebView view  String url            if  url    null  amp  amp   url startsWith  http         url startsWith  https                      view getContext   startActivity                  new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  Uri parse url                 return true            else               return false

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You can use an Intent for this   Uri uriUrl   Uri parse  http   www google com      Intent launchBrowser   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  uriUrl     startActivity launchBrowser

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