Android: overriding shouldOverrideUrlLoading not working on HTC devices

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On a HTC Evo running Android 2.3.5, overrriden shouldOverrideUrlLoading() is never called. The exact same code works well on a Samsung Galaxy running Android 2.3.6.

so far, I have tried overriding onPageStarted() and onPageFinished(). I do not see the URL in these methods.

My intent is to provide custom activities for mailto: and tel: links present in the page. Any ideas on how I can make this work if shouldOverrideUrlLoading() is never hit?

I have already looked at similar questions on stackoverflow and elsewhere, haven't found anything relevant.

[took from ](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9670136/shouldoverrideurlloading-gets-called-only-for-some-webpages). The problem seemed to be js function setTimeout(fn, millis). You have write a js function that overrides it and then recreate the behaviour of this function in your Android code (using JavascriptInterface) as it fits best for your app. It's a lot of work which depends of your app functionality, but it works. The idea is overriding setTimeout then call a method from android code who sleeps the thread for how many millis were in the initial calling of the setTimeout in js.. — Maxim Shoustin, Oct 27 '12 at 00:29
Thanks for your comment. I'll give it a try; but Javascript might not be an acceptable solution. I am also looking at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5116909/how-i-can-get-onclick-event-on-webview-in-android — Chaitanya, Oct 28 '12 at 15:46

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 19 '17 at 12:00

shouldOverrideUrlLoading() doesn't work only on some Android versions, like 2.1 or 2.3.6 but it works fine on 2.3.3, 2.3.5, 4.0.2 or 4.0.3.

If you need to handle clicking on a link on webview, you must use shouldOverrideUrlLoading() method. If you only need to handle loading a webpage, you should use onPageStarted().

This is android developer link: https://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/migrating.html

Note: Ex: we have 2 links on Webpage.
1. <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/">Visit W3Schools!</a>
2. <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/" target="_blank">Visit W3Schools!</a>

shouldOverrideUrlLoading() is only called when user click on link "1". and it isn't called when user click on link "2"

public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {

    if (url.contains("success")) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(WebviewActivity.this, OrderConfirmActivity.class);
        intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
        startActivity(intent);
    } else {
        super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);
    }
}

I don't understand why the ` if (url.contains("success"))` works. Could you explain it? — acrespo, Jan 29 '16 at 15:10

Android: overriding shouldOverrideUrlLoading not working on HTC devices

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