Android webview launches browser when calling loadurl

Question

I created an Activity that has a title and a web view in a LinearLayout. In the onResume() method it calls webView.loadUrl(url). The problem is that the activity first shows the title with the rest of the screen blank, then the device browser is launched with the page for the URL. What I want to see is the page being shown in the WebView below the title. What could be the problem?

Edit: Ok, did some further search and found this one:

Clicking URLs opens default browser

It points to the WebView tutorial here.

Just implement the web client and set it.

Solution 1

Answering my question based on the suggestions from Maudicus and Hit.

Check the WebView tutorial here. Just implement the web client and set it before loadUrl. The simplest way is:

myWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());

For more advanced processing for the web content, consider the ChromeClient.

Solution 2

Use this:

lWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());

Solution 3

use like this:

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

    WebView myWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1);
    myWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
    myWebView.loadUrl("https://google.com");
}

Solution 4

Make your Activity like this.

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
WebView browser;

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

    // find the WebView by name in the main.xml of step 2
    browser=(WebView)findViewById(R.id.wvwMain);

    // Enable javascript
    browser.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);  

    // Set WebView client
    browser.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient());

    browser.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {

        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
                view.loadUrl(url);
                return true;
                }
        });
     // Load the webpage
    browser.loadUrl("http://google.com/");
   }
}

Solution 5

I was facing the same problem and I found the solution Android's official Documentation about WebView

Here is my onCreateView() method and here i used two methods to open the urls

Method 1 is opening url in Browser and

Method 2 is opening url in your desired WebView.
And I am using Method 2 for my Application and this is my code:

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
   private WebView myWebView;

     @Override
     public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {

      View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_webpage_detail, container, false);

      // Show the dummy content as text in a TextView.
      if (mItem != null) {

         /* Method : 1
          This following line is working fine BUT when we click the menu item then it opens the URL in BROWSER not in WebView */
         //((WebView)   rootView.findViewById(R.id.detail_area)).loadUrl(mItem.url);

        // Method : 2
        myWebView = (WebView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.detail_area); // get your WebView form your xml file
        myWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient()); // set the WebViewClient
        myWebView.loadUrl(mItem.url); // Load your desired url
    }

    return rootView;
}                                                                                               }

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Comments

[Magno C]

To avoid WebView to launch the default browser when open initial page.

[Josh]

Thanks for this unbelievable awesome little piece of witchcraft! +1 ...MINUS ONE FOR YOU, Android...

[Omid1989]

Excellent answer. Solved my problem too.

[logicbloke]

Does this only work for the initial loading? What if you want to navigate the browser from within the app?

[Thomas Pritchard]

myWebView.webViewClient = WebViewClient() in Kotlin!

[apex39]

setJavaScriptEnabled(true) introduces XSS vulnerabilities into your app. Do not use it if you do not need JavaScript

[Jordan H]

The line enabling JavaScript is super important otherwise you'll get You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. and googling it will only reveal people having issues with react native and you'll go crazy because JavaScript is already enabled in the browser settings.

[Vladyslav Matviienko]

@DigvijaySingh check the original of accepted answer. Originally it didn't have this code. It was added way after this answer

[Abduhafiz]

Wini, you can do smth. like this @ Override public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) { if (event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) { switch (keyCode) { case KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK: if (mWebView.canGoBack()) { mWebView.goBack(); } else { finish(); } return true; } } return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event); }

[Sujit]

Damn, it didn't even occur to me to use both. I use onPageFinished() from WebViewClient and onConsoleMessage() from WebChromeClient. Thanks!

[Jaimin Modi]

Its still opens in browser with end / not correct answer..

[Kevin Worth]

Actually, I'm finding this same behavior. Not sure how to explain it, but this is what I'm seeing as well.

[qkx]

Oh, classic Googlers. They always forget to mention something very important in their android documentation....It is maddening, 80% times when I copy paste their code I have to google "why XYZ does not work" and find an answer on stackoverflow...How hard is it to not half-ass documentation Google?