android eclipse and external URL

Question

I am trying to make a YouTube link on my app to open in an external window/tab. Can anyone help me?

Here is my code :

import com.actionbarsherlock.app.SherlockFragment;

public class Showing_now extends SherlockFragment{

    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    View mainView = (View) inflater.inflate(R.layout.activity_showing_now, container, false);
    WebView webView = (WebView) mainView.findViewById(R.id.webViewsn);

    webView.setWebViewClient(new MyWebViewClient());
    webView.getSettings().setPluginsEnabled(true);
    webView.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(false); 
    webView.getSettings().setSupportZoom(false);
    webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically(true);   
    webView.getSettings().setAllowFileAccess(true); 
    webView.getSettings().setDomStorageEnabled(true);
    webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true); 
    webView.getSettings().setPluginState(PluginState.ON);
    webView.loadUrl("http://www.myweburl.com");
    return mainView;
}
    private class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {

    }
}

Make sure you have this in your `AndroidManifest.xml`: `` http://stackoverflow.com/a/2378619/833647 — Ken Wolf, Jul 26 '13 at 14:01

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 26 '13 at 14:04

If I understand correctly, you want to open YouTube links in the YouTube app... If you want all YouTube links to open in the app, use this:

public class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {

    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {

        if (url.startsWith("http://m.youtube.com")||url.startsWith("http://www.youtube.com") {
            startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url)));
            return true;
        } 
        return false;
    }

@Ty221's answer will work also, but this answer will automatically try to open all YouTube links in the YouTube app.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 26 '13 at 14:01

If you want to watch that video in external application, use that function :

public static void watchYoutubeVideo(String id){
    try{
         Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("vnd.youtube:" + id));
         startActivity(intent);                 
         }catch (ActivityNotFoundException ex){
             Intent intent=new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, 
             Uri.parse("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v="+id));
             startActivity(intent);
         }
}

If YouTube application is installed video will be shown in it, else browser will be opened .

android eclipse and external URL

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