rich link preview in android

Question

I am working on an application where I think rich link preview (whatsapp supports it,refer image) will be helpful for users but I am not able to get an idea to start on it.Any kind of suggestion/hint on how to do this will be helpful.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 04 '21 at 17:54

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Update here is the latest solution

implementation 'io.github.ponnamkarthik:richlinkpreview:1.0.9'

in your XML

<io.github.ponnamkarthik.richlinkpreview.RichLinkView
    android:id="@+id/richLinkView"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
</io.github.ponnamkarthik.richlinkpreview.RichLinkView>

in java :

richLinkView = (RichLinkView) findViewById(R.id.richLinkView);
        
        
        
        richLinkView.setLink("https://stackoverflow.com", new ViewListener() {
            
            @Override
            public void onSuccess(boolean status) {
                
            }
            
            @Override
            public void onError(Exception e) {
                
            }
        });

For more styles visit

Library on GitHub

Old Answer

You can use this Android Link Preview library on github. for that just add the repository to your build.gradle file like this

repositories {
jcenter()
maven { url 'https://github.com/leonardocardoso/mvn-repo/raw/master/maven-deploy'}
     }

And you can use the artifacts like this:

dependencies {
compile 'org.jsoup:jsoup:1.8.3' // required
compile 'com.leocardz:link-preview:1.2.1@aar'

}

you can download a sample application from here

edited Jan 04 '21 at 17:54

xaif

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answered Jul 06 '16 at 06:27

Digvijay Singh

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Link is fixed please check – Digvijay Singh Mar 20 '19 at 19:50
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it is not properly working when we used it in recycler view, the preview images are wrongly showing in the recycler view items. – Madhan Aug 07 '19 at 06:16
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@Madhan can you show us how you implemented in the recycler view... as an answer to this question maybe – DragonFire Jan 22 '20 at 09:07
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@Madhan please ask another question – Digvijay Singh Oct 29 '20 at 18:35
@DigvijaySingh This library is no more compatible with the android studio, any solution? – Muhammad Afzal Apr 21 '22 at 07:50
This library does not work anymore! Can't even add it to dependency! – Junia Montana May 01 '22 at 18:15

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 22 '19 at 06:14

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I am late in the party, but I have found new lib which provide easy to integrate and default preview style, i.e WhatsApp, Skype, Telegram etc...

implementation ‘io.github.ponnamkarthik:richlinkpreview:1.0.9’

Link Preview lib integration step by step

Please check easy implementation from above link

answered Jan 22 '19 at 06:14

Hitesh Dhamshaniya

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Its work for me for youtube URL as well, Can you please check the medium post example, if still not get, if you can provide youtube URL I can check the issue – Hitesh Dhamshaniya Jun 17 '20 at 12:33
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that worked for me as well, I wasn't using latest jsoup version, so that was not working. After I updated jsoup version it started working. – NehaK Jun 18 '20 at 08:04
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@Hitesh It doesn't provide data of Twitter and Facebook links. Any solution for that? – Shahood ul Hassan Jun 25 '20 at 01:31
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@ShahoodulHassan Did you get twitter icon in the preview, I can see the Twitter icon when I tried to get the preview form any tweet... The issue is already registered in lib https://github.com/PonnamKarthik/RichLinkPreview/issues/10 – Hitesh Dhamshaniya Jun 25 '20 at 10:08
@ShahoodulHassan hi, have you found any solution for how to get preview from twitter link? – pratik vekariya Sep 23 '20 at 11:41

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 25 '17 at 13:40

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I found this library, I didn't try it but hope will work for you https://github.com/FreesoulApps/PreviewAndroid

answered Jan 25 '17 at 13:40

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 22 '22 at 01:15

I just tried and implement the Rich Link Preview feature into my app through URLEmbeddedView and it was working perfectly fine. Before that, i tried to implement almost all solutions but failed because mostly are outdated and do not support on the latest android API levels. Let me know if anyone is facing issue

rich link preview in android

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