Question

I have a WebView which contains a Facebook button, it opens a link to the site with a post already done.
I want to know how to intercept the request and open it in the facebook application rather than on the browser. However, if Facebook apps is on the smartphone.

Thank you for your reply, and sorry for my English medium.

Answer 1

This can be achieved by setting the webviewclient eg.

mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
        if (url.startsWith("http://blablablacatchurl")) {

            //we have intercepted the desired url call
            return true;
        }

        return super.shouldOverrideUrlLoading(view, url);
    }
});

If you want to see if there is a way to deep link to the facebook app, just package the url in an intent and fire it off and see what responds. If facebook doesn’t catch it I don’t think you can perform the second part of your request in any other way.