Support for other protocols in Android webview

For me the JavaScript thing wasn't a solution as the HTML is not under my control. So if you need to control this from the application side, then there is a relative simple solution: Derive from WebViewClientand inject the implementation using WebView.setWebViewClient(). All you need to override in your WebViewClientimplementation is the shouldOverrideUrlLoading method as shown here:

public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
    if (url != null && url.startsWith("market://")) {
        view.getContext().startActivity(
            new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url)));
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

For me this works fine.

HOPE THIS HELPS YOU

public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) 
{
    if (url.startsWith("market://")||url.startsWith("vnd:youtube")||url.startsWith("tel:")||url.startsWith("mailto:"))
    {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); 
        intent.setData(Uri.parse(url)); 
        startActivity(intent);
        return true;
     }
    else{
        view.loadUrl(url);
        return true;
        }
}