Android - Open target _blank links in WebView with external browser
Solution 1
After visiting the above links, I come up with this code and hope this helps.
wv.getSettings().setSupportMultipleWindows(true);
wv.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() {
@Override
public boolean onCreateWindow(WebView view, boolean dialog, boolean userGesture, android.os.Message resultMsg)
{
WebView.HitTestResult result = view.getHitTestResult();
String data = result.getExtra();
Context context = view.getContext();
Intent browserIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(data));
context.startActivity(browserIntent);
return false;
}
});
Solution 2
I faced same problem. I wanted to open my web sites pages inside the application and rest all the pages should be open in Default Browser. I used one technique. If URL contains my website name, then I opened it in WebView and rest all the websites opened in Default browser.
Find Below code, I hope It would be useful for all who faced such problems.
private class MyBrowser extends WebViewClient {
@Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
if (url.contains("/internetgeeks")) {
browser.loadUrl(url);
return false;
} else {
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setData(Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(intent);
return true;
}
}
}
Solution 3
I also have the same problem and now I've found the solution.
You also need to use WebChromeClient.You can see this and this . And you can set a WebViewClient to the new WebView and override the shouldOverrideUrlLoading method, then you can get the url and do whatever you want here. If you don't set the WebViewClient, I think it should works too. In my case I want to get the url so I set a WebViewClient to the new WebView.
By the way, if you remove the old webview then when you come back form the browser,the webview is blank. So I retained the webview and added a new one but set the visibility to "gone".
Comments
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Ron over 3 years
I build a
WebView
which displays a website. The website contains links without atarget="_blank"
attribute and some with it.I need to open the links with
target
defined in the external standard device browser and the ones without it inside the WebView.I'm using a
WebViewClient
and I tried around with this function but still all my links are opened within theWebView
:Alternative 1:
@Override public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) { return super.shouldOverrideUrlLoading(view, url); }
Alternative 2:
@Override public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) { view.loadUrl(url); return true; }
Does anybody know how I can open blank-links externally?
Thanks!
PS: To avoid missunderstandings: I can't use this approach because the only way I know the link should be opened externallly is the
target
attribute.