More on WebView, override url loading

In the post android.webkit.WebView, we have implemented a very dummy web browser. But...once user click on a link, the default Android Browser will be opened to view the web page. To keep using our WebView to handle the event, we can implement a new class (MyWebViewClient) extends WebViewClient, and override the shouldOverrideUrlLoading() method, to take over the control when a new url is about to be loaded in the current WebView.

We have to call setWebViewClient() to set our WebViewClient to receive various notifications and requests.

package com.AndroidWebView;



import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.webkit.WebView;

import android.webkit.WebViewClient;



public class AndroidWebViewActivity extends Activity {

	

	WebView webView;

	final String DEFAULT_URL = "http://android-coding.blogspot.com/?m=1";

	

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */

    @Override

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        webView = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webview);

        webView.setWebViewClient(new MyWebViewClient());

        webView.loadUrl(DEFAULT_URL);

        

    }

    

	public class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {



		@Override

		public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {

			// TODO Auto-generated method stub

			view.loadUrl(url);

	        return true;

		}

	}

}

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