Android WebView how to handle redirects in app instead of opening a browser

Question

So right now in my app the URL I m accessing has a redirect  and when this happens the WebView will open a new browser  instead of staying in my app  Is there a way I can change the settings so the View will redirect to the URL like normal  but stay in my app instead of opening a new browser   Edit   I want the redirecting URL  I just don t know how to create it  so the only way to get to that URL is through one that will cause a redirect to the one I want    For example  When you go here  http   www amazon com gp aw s ref is box  k 9780735622777 notice how it will redirect the URL to the actual product  In my app  if I open it in a new browser  it will do that just fine  however if I keep it in my app with a WebView  it will show up as though it s doing a search for k 9780735622777  like this  http   www amazon com gp aw s ref is s  k k 3D9780735622777 amp x 0 amp y 0   OR  it will open the view in the browser and show what is appropriate  However  I want to keep everything in my app

User · Answer

You will have to set your custom WebviewClient overriding shouldOverrideUrlLoading method for your webview before loading the url.

mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient()
        {
            @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
            @Override
            public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView webView, String url)
            {
                return shouldOverrideUrlLoading(url);
            }

            @TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.N)
            @Override
            public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView webView, WebResourceRequest request)
            {
                Uri uri = request.getUrl();
                return shouldOverrideUrlLoading(uri.toString());
            }

            private boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(final String url)
            {
                Log.i(TAG, "shouldOverrideUrlLoading() URL : " + url);

                // Here put your code

                return true; // Returning True means that application wants to leave the current WebView and handle the url itself, otherwise return false.
            }
        });

Checkout the example code for handling redirect urls and open PDF without download, in webview. https://gist.github.com/ashishdas09/014a408f9f37504eb2608d98abf49500

User · Answer

Just adding a default custom WebViewClient will do  This makes the WebView handle any loaded urls itself   mWebView setWebViewClient new WebViewClient

User · Answer

Create a WebViewClient  and override the shouldOverrideUrlLoading method   webview setWebViewClient new WebViewClient         public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading WebView view  String url              do your handling codes here  which url is the requested url            probably you need to open that url rather than redirect          view loadUrl url           return false     then it is not handled by default action

User · Answer

According to the official documentation  a click on any link in WebView launches an application that handles URLs  which by default is a browser  You need to override the default behavior like this      myWebView setWebViewClient new WebViewClient              Override         public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading WebView view  String url                return false

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Override public void onPageStarted WebView view  String url  Bitmap favicon        super onPageStarted view  url  favicon       if  url equals  quot your url quot                           Intent intent   new Intent view getContext    TransferAllDoneActivity class               startActivity intent

User · Answer

Please use the below kotlin code   webview setWebViewClient object   WebViewClient                 override fun shouldOverrideUrlLoading view  WebView  url  String   Boolean                      view loadUrl url                  return false                             For more info click here

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Create a class that implements webviewclient and add the following code that allows ovveriding the url string as shown below  You can see these  example  1  public class myWebClient extends WebViewClient         Override      public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading WebView view  String url             view loadUrl url             return true            On your constructor  create a webview object as shown below     web   new WebView this   web setLayoutParams new ViewGroup LayoutParams ViewGroup LayoutParams MATCH PARENT  ViewGroup LayoutParams FILL PARENT      Then add the following code to perform loading of urls inside your app        WebSettings settings web getSettings         settings setJavaScriptEnabled true             web loadUrl  quot http   www facebook com quot        web setWebViewClient new myWebClient           web setWebChromeClient new WebChromeClient

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