Question

I am trying to create my first Android app and need some help.

Basically the app has a webview which loads a URL which works fine but I have a button under it that I want when pressed to open a different URL in the webview window.

I cannot figure out how to tell the button to do this.

This is my first app so apologise if the answer is very simple.

Many thanks in advance

Jay

Answer 1

Assuming the button is inside the webView…

create a new class which extends webviewclient and add this to your web view like this.. , it will load the remaining urls in the same web view.

mWebView.setWebViewClient(new HelloWebViewClient());


private class HelloWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
        view.loadUrl(url);
        return true;
    }
}

take a look at this tutorial too….

if it is outside webView.. then

Button webButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.yourbuttonId);
webButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
  @Override
  public void onClick(View v) {
         mWebView.loadUrl(urltoload);
  }
});

mWebView is the web view in your xml.you need to get access to it. Put the above code in onCreate of your activity after you do setContentView()