Question

I have a webview with a website loaded in it. When I click on a link say “Full Site”, I want to launch the default browser of the phone, how do I achieve this? Currently it loads the full site in the web view as well. Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to attach a WebViewClient to your WebView object:

WebView myWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
myWebView.setWebViewClient(new MyWebViewClient());
........

private class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
        if (Uri.parse(url).getHost().equals("www.mysite.com")) {
           //Load the site into the default browser
             Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url));
             startActivity(intent);
             return true;
        }
        // Load url into the webview
       return false;
    }
}

Just adjust the if-statement for your needed