How to only allow links in a webView to be opened by other applications?

Question

Making an Android app that loads a url in a webView but the webpage contains links to images and videos that i do not want opened within the webview, If the user clicks on a link that doesn't load one of the whitelisted links then i want it to prompt the user to open the link in the android web browser or google chrome.

So far i have this:

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    String url = "http://myurlhere.com";
    WebView view = (WebView) this.findViewById(R.id.webView1);
    view.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    view.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
    view.loadUrl(url);
    String currentUrl = view.getUrl();
    if (currentUrl != url) {
        view.loadUrl(url);
    }

}

But this still allows links to be opened in the webView.

Have you tried view.getSettings().setAllowContentAccess(false); ? — Pedro Oliveira, Sep 10 '14 at 15:27
What kind of links are we talking about? Because with that code all the hyperlinks will be open outside of the webview — Pedro Oliveira, Sep 10 '14 at 15:33
Basically links to imgur and other websites, It blocks nothing, Every link i click opens within the webview. :( — Skilo Skilo, Sep 10 '14 at 15:35
Add the setAllowContentAccess(false) after you finish loading the first page. If you add it before it will open the browser — Pedro Oliveira, Sep 10 '14 at 15:38
Added after view.getUrl(url); still loads links within the webview. — Skilo Skilo, Sep 10 '14 at 15:41
Refer to this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17994750/open-external-links-in-the-browser-with-android-webview — Pedro Oliveira, Sep 10 '14 at 15:42
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/60987/discussion-between-skilo-skilo-and-pedro-oliveira). — Skilo Skilo, Sep 10 '14 at 15:42

How to only allow links in a webView to be opened by other applications?

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