Question

I am trying to open a url in my webview but the problem is that the url is not loading in my webview, its showing pop-up for the selection of browser and as soon as i click on an option it opens the url in that browser. Can somebody help me to solve this, i want the url to open in the webview itself not in the browser.

my xml for webview is :-

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="@drawable/bg_new" >

    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/upBar"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/header"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/wbview_bckbtn"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:src="@drawable/back_btn_chng" />

    </RelativeLayout>

    <RelativeLayout
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/upBar" >

        <WebView
            android:id="@+id/linkwebview"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="fill_parent"
            android:padding="10dp"
            android:scrollbars="none" />
    </RelativeLayout>

</RelativeLayout>

and here’s my code for webview :-

public class FbTwtrLink extends Activity {

    WebView web;
    ImageView img,bckimg,share_btn; 

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_fb_twtr_link);

        img = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.header);
        bckimg = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.wbview_bckbtn);

        web=(WebView)findViewById(R.id.linkwebview);
        web.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

        web.loadUrl("http://www.google.com");

    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_fb_twtr_link, menu);
        return true;
    }

}

and i m calling the webview like that :-

fbicon.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub


                Intent intent=new Intent(context,FbTwtrLink.class);
                //intent.putExtra("fb_link", 1);
                startActivity(intent);
            }
        });

Answer 1

You should override WebViewClient and its method shouldOverrideUrlLoading

 web.setWebViewClient(new MyWebClient()); 
 web.loadUrl("http://www.google.com");

class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
  @Override
  // show the web page in webview but not in web browser
   public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
    //1 option 
    // getApplicationContext().startActivity(
    // new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url)));
    // 2 option
    //view.loadUrl(url);
        return true;
  }
}