Android WebView touch event link

Question

I have a webview with a banner and when I click on the banner there should open a second webview that follows the link. How can I do that? I have created the first WebView and it shows my banner but when I click on it, it opens the link in the same WebView.

How can I catch any events in the WebView when I click on a link that it should do something (with that link)? Just like shouldStartLoadWithRequest in iPhone.

Thank you,

Wouter

Solution 1

You can monitor events in a WebView using a WebViewClient. The method you want is shouldOverrideUrlLoading(). This allows you to perform your own action when a particular URL is selected.

You set the WebViewClient of your WebView using the setWebViewClient() method.

Solution 2

shouldOverrideUrlLoading good method, but if you click on current link webview client not calling to shouldOverrideUrlLoading method.

Comments

[Datta Kunde]

how to use shouldOverrideUrlLoading() ? please give short sample code.

[Datta Kunde]

Got the solution... It write like this "private class HelloWebViewClient extends WebViewClient { @Override public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) { System.out.println("DDD URL: "+url.toString()); view.loadUrl(url); return true; } }"