handling links in a webview
I have my WebView
loading all links inside the webview - but when I select an email link it tries to load it in the webview instead of launching an email app on the phone. How do I resolve that? the links are mailto://[email protected]
Here is my code - the WebView
itself works right and everything loads inside the webview, including mailto:, etc. Need the mailto links to load elsewhere
package com.apps.jerdog.crcc;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.KeyEvent;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;
@SuppressWarnings("unused")
public class mainActivity extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */
/**@Override */
WebView webview;
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
webview = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webview.getSettings().setSupportZoom(true);
webview.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true);
webview.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
webview.loadUrl("http://www.cedarridge.cc");
}
@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
if ((keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) && webview.canGoBack()) {
webview.goBack();
return true;
}
return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
}
private class myWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url)
{
if (url.startsWith("mailto:") || url.startsWith("tel:")) {
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(intent);
}
view.loadUrl(url);
return true;
}
}}
Solution 1:
I assume you are already overriding shouldOverrideUrlLoading, you just need to handle this special case.
mWebClient = new WebViewClient(){
@Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
if(url.startsWith("mailto:")){
MailTo mt = MailTo.parse(url);
Intent i = newEmailIntent(MyActivity.this, mt.getTo(), mt.getSubject(), mt.getBody(), mt.getCc());
startActivity(i);
view.reload();
return true;
}
else{
view.loadUrl(url);
}
return true;
}
};
mWebView.setWebViewClient(mWebClient);
public static Intent newEmailIntent(Context context, String address, String subject, String body, String cc) {
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[] { address });
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, body);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_CC, cc);
intent.setType("message/rfc822");
return intent;
}
Solution 2:
Going off of the answer provided by @schwiz, here is a cleaner example. Assuming the WebView
is named webView
:
webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
// shouldOverrideUrlLoading makes this `WebView` the default handler for URLs inside the app, so that links are not kicked out to other apps.
@Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
// Use an external email program if the link begins with "mailto:".
if (url.startsWith("mailto:")) {
// We use `ACTION_SENDTO` instead of `ACTION_SEND` so that only email programs are launched.
Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
// Parse the url and set it as the data for the `Intent`.
emailIntent.setData(Uri.parse(url));
// `FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK` opens the email program in a new task instead as part of this application.
emailIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
// Make it so.
startActivity(emailIntent);
return true;
} else {
// Returning false causes WebView to load the URL while preventing it from adding URL redirects to the WebView history.
return false;
}
}
});
I have tested this with all the mailto:
options: multiple email addresses, CC, BCC, subject, and body.