Disable links in WebView in Android

Question

I know there's a lot about this but I want to make the whole webview not clickable so that it's like you press somewhere on a picture...

Is there a solution?

I think this topic will help http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5116909/how-i-can-get-onclick-event-on-webview-in-android — azerto00, Nov 13 '13 at 12:58
no, that's not what I'm searching about because with this code, I am able to click on the link. Yes, the link will not be opened, but I'm still able to click on it. That's it what I don't want to. — Jan Knoblauch, Nov 13 '13 at 15:57

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:05

Ok, So, Maybe there is a solution.

1 : Retrieve as a String the content that will be display
2 : Find all links (with REGEXP) and replace by the content

I'm not expert in REGEXP, but the

<a href="http://www.the-link" alt="ddsd">BLABLA</a>

has to become

BLABLA

I think this is possible

EDIT

Try with this function

private String RemoveUrl(String commentstr)
{
    String commentstr1=commentstr;
    String urlPattern = "((https?|ftp|gopher|telnet|file|Unsure|http):((//)|(\\\\))+[\\w\\d:#@%/;$()~_?\\+-=\\\\\\.&]*)";
    Pattern p = Pattern.compile(urlPattern,Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
    Matcher m = p.matcher(commentstr1);
    int i=0;
    while (m.find()) {
        commentstr1=commentstr1.replaceAll(m.group(i),"").trim();
        i++;
    }
    return commentstr1;
}

source : Removing the url from text using java

Disable links in WebView in Android

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