Android webview launches browser when calling loadurl

Question

I created an Activity that has a title and a web view in a LinearLayout. In the onResume() method it calls webView.loadUrl(url). The problem is that the activity first shows the title with the rest of the screen blank, then the device browser is launched with the page for the URL. What I want to see is the page being shown in the WebView below the title. What could be the problem?

Edit: Ok, did some further search and found this one:

Clicking URLs opens default browser

It points to the WebView tutorial here.

Just implement the web client and set it.

@Ray, consider writing an answer to this question, if you has found a solution, and accept it. This will help other people with same problem. — HitOdessit
– HitOdessit, Commented Oct 5, 2012 at 9:01
I had an even nastier problem. It turns out, even a redirect will load with the browser if a custom WebViewClient is not used. — aaazalea
– aaazalea, Commented Jun 29, 2013 at 18:47
This one also tells about it... youtube.com/watch?v=4bIF5In1c8s — Athira Reddy
– Athira Reddy, Commented Nov 12, 2019 at 5:39

Jagat Dave · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-28 15:21:41Z

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Answering my question based on the suggestions from Maudicus and Hit.

Check the WebView tutorial here. Just implement the web client and set it before loadUrl. The simplest way is:

myWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());

For more advanced processing for the web content, consider the ChromeClient.

edited Jun 28, 2016 at 15:21

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Magno C Over a year ago

To avoid WebView to launch the default browser when open initial page.

Josh Over a year ago

Thanks for this unbelievable awesome little piece of witchcraft! +1 ...MINUS ONE FOR YOU, Android...

Omid1989 Over a year ago

Excellent answer. Solved my problem too.

Thomas Pritchard Over a year ago

myWebView.webViewClient = WebViewClient() in Kotlin!

qkx Over a year ago

Oh, classic Googlers. They always forget to mention something very important in their android documentation....It is maddening, 80% times when I copy paste their code I have to google "why XYZ does not work" and find an answer on stackoverflow...How hard is it to not half-ass documentation Google?

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Jonas Czech · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-06 13:48:27Z

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Use this:

lWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());

edited May 6, 2016 at 13:48

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answered May 3, 2013 at 8:52

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Vladyslav Matviienko Over a year ago

@DigvijaySingh check the original of accepted answer. Originally it didn't have this code. It was added way after this answer

Eduard Luca · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-28 09:02:40Z

use like this:

@Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_dedline); WebView myWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1); myWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient()); myWebView.loadUrl("https://google.com"); }

Abduhafiz · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-21 12:41:57Z

Make your Activity like this.

public class MainActivity extends Activity { WebView browser; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); // find the WebView by name in the main.xml of step 2 browser=(WebView)findViewById(R.id.wvwMain); // Enable javascript browser.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true); // Set WebView client browser.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient()); browser.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() { @Override public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) { view.loadUrl(url); return true; } }); // Load the webpage browser.loadUrl("http://google.com/"); } }

setJavaScriptEnabled(true) introduces XSS vulnerabilities into your app. Do not use it if you do not need JavaScript
The line enabling JavaScript is super important otherwise you'll get You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. and googling it will only reveal people having issues with react native and you'll go crazy because JavaScript is already enabled in the browser settings.
Wini, you can do smth. like this @ Override public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) { if (event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) { switch (keyCode) { case KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK: if (mWebView.canGoBack()) { mWebView.goBack(); } else { finish(); } return true; } } return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event); }

Arsh Kaushal · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-04 05:24:42Z

I was facing the same problem and I found the solution Android's official Documentation about WebView

Here is my onCreateView() method and here i used two methods to open the urls

Method 1 is opening url in Browser and

Method 2 is opening url in your desired WebView.
And I am using Method 2 for my Application and this is my code:

public class MainActivity extends Activity { private WebView myWebView; @Override public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) { View rootView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_webpage_detail, container, false); // Show the dummy content as text in a TextView. if (mItem != null) { /* Method : 1 This following line is working fine BUT when we click the menu item then it opens the URL in BROWSER not in WebView */ //((WebView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.detail_area)).loadUrl(mItem.url); // Method : 2 myWebView = (WebView) rootView.findViewById(R.id.detail_area); // get your WebView form your xml file myWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient()); // set the WebViewClient myWebView.loadUrl(mItem.url); // Load your desired url } return rootView; } }

CoolMind · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-16 16:09:35Z

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If you see an empty page, enable JavaScript.

webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient()); WebSettings webSettings = webView.getSettings(); webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true); webSettings.setDomStorageEnabled(true); webView.loadUrl(url);

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Vishudh Sasidharan Over a year ago

The webpage I am loading was failing because of a script. setDomStorageEnabled(true) did the trick for me. Thanks.

CoolMind Over a year ago

@VishudhSasidharan, thanks, glad to hear you!

cmak Over a year ago

@VishudhSasidharan Beware of the implications of enabling DOM storage, as it may make the WebView have worse performance and more vulnerable

ceph3us · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-13 03:34:49Z

Try this code...

private void startWebView(String url) { //Create new webview Client to show progress dialog //When opening a url or click on link webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() { ProgressDialog progressDialog; //If you will not use this method url links are opeen in new brower not in webview public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) { view.loadUrl(url); return true; } //Show loader on url load public void onLoadResource (final WebView view, String url) { if (progressDialog == null) { // in standard case YourActivity.this progressDialog = new ProgressDialog(view.getContext()); progressDialog.setMessage("Loading..."); progressDialog.show(); } } public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) { try{ if (progressDialog.isShowing()) { progressDialog.dismiss(); progressDialog = null; } }catch(Exception exception){ exception.printStackTrace(); } } }); // Javascript inabled on webview webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true); // Other webview options /* webView.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true); webView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true); webView.setScrollBarStyle(WebView.SCROLLBARS_OUTSIDE_OVERLAY); webView.setScrollbarFadingEnabled(false); webView.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true); */ /* String summary = "<html><body>You scored <b>192</b> points.</body></html>"; webview.loadData(summary, "text/html", null); */ //Load url in webview webView.loadUrl(url); }

user6434985 · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-07 14:48:35Z

Simply Answer you can use like this

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); WebView webView = new WebView(this); setContentView(webView); webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient()); webView.loadUrl("http://www.google.com"); } }

Vishal Naikawadi · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-29 08:09:31Z

If you're using webChromeClient I'll suggest you to use webChromeClient and webViewClient together. because webChromeClient does not provides shouldOverrideUrlLoading. It is okay to use both.

 webview.webViewClient = WebViewClient() webview.webChromeClient = Callback() private inner class Callback : WebChromeClient() { override fun onProgressChanged(view: WebView?, newProgress: Int) { super.onProgressChanged(view, newProgress) if (newProgress == 0) { progressBar.visibility = View.VISIBLE } else if (newProgress == 100) { progressBar.visibility = View.GONE } } }

Damn, it didn't even occur to me to use both. I use onPageFinished() from WebViewClient and onConsoleMessage() from WebChromeClient. Thanks!

Florian T · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-09 15:40:57Z

I just found out that it depends on the formatting of the URL:

https://example.com/example gets opened in the browser
https://example.com/example/ (with / at the end) gets opened in the webView

My code just uses

webview.loadUrl(url)

no need to set

webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient())

at least in my case. Maybe that's useful for some of you.

Actually, I'm finding this same behavior. Not sure how to explain it, but this is what I'm seeing as well.

C13 · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-12 04:41:53Z

My problem ended up being that I needed to do a clearHistory before I could switch between sites without opening an external browser.

 @Override public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) { webView_.clearHistory(); super.onPageFinished(webView_, url); }

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