Android WebView navigation

Question

I want to add news and weather app in webview. But jumping to anyther website from webview is not an option. How can I restrict a webview for a certain website.

Thanks.

Ok. Let me try to explain it. If I put www.weather.com in a webview and user clicks on some advertisement or try to share some thing via facebook or twitter. I should not allow. All the time the basic url has to be www.weather.com. User can browse anything within that url. Does this help ? — user1143989, Jun 25 '12 at 14:18

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

Create your own WebViewClient:

public class CustomWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
        if(url.getHost().equals("weather.com")){
            // load link
            return false;
        }else{
            // block link
            return true;
        }
    }
}

Use it like this:

webview.setWebViewClient(new CustomWebViewClient());

EDIT Note: an example of a getHost() function

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 25 '12 at 14:30

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If I understand the question correctly you might want to implement your own WebViewClient. That will allow you to handle the page navigation. Check out the link for a tutorial from Google.

answered Jun 25 '12 at 14:30

MikeIsrael

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draksia · Answer 3 · 2012-06-25T14:37:03.950

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viewer.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient(){
    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {

        //Block all URL accesses.
        return false;
    }
});

That should prevent access to anything. You need to handle specific URL's in this function if you want to allow them.

edited Jun 25 '12 at 14:37

answered Jun 25 '12 at 14:31

draksia

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Android WebView navigation

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