Question

I have a webview that has some custom HTML loaded into it. In this HTML there is a link to an image. Right now when the user clicks the link, it automatically opens the image in the default android browser. I would instead like to capture that click event and open the URL in my own view as to preserve branding within the UI.

In iOS this is done by using a UIWebViewDelegate, is there something similar for android’s WebView?

Answer 1

Create a subclass of WebViewClient and override shouldOverrideUrlLoading(). Then, attach an instance of that class to your WebView via setWebViewClient(). This works for simple hyperlinks and server-issued redirects.