Why CordovaWebViewClient not working in Cordova 6 anymore

Question

I have written custom webviewclient class to override onPageStarted, onPageFinished etc in cordova 3.7 which was working fine.

In following code is I have hosted the www directory to web server and interacting cordova plugins from there (barcodescanner, nfc, bluetooth etc).

public class MainActivity extends CordovaActivity {
    private WebView webView;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        super.init();

        loadUrl("https://example.com");
    }

    public class CustomCordovaWebViewClient extends CordovaWebViewClient {

        public CustomCordovaWebViewClient(CordovaInterface cordova, CordovaWebView view) {
            super(cordova, view);
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
            super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);
            Log.i("CSP Log", "onPageStarted: " + url);
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
            super.onPageFinished(view, url);
            Log.i("CSP Log", "onPageFinished: " + url);
        }

        @Override
        public void doUpdateVisitedHistory(WebView view, String url, boolean isReload){
            super.doUpdateVisitedHistory(view, url, isReload);
        }

        @Override
        public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl) {
            super.onReceivedError(view, errorCode, description, failingUrl);
        }

    }

}

After a year, I have migrated project from cordova 3.7 to cordova 6 but I found above code broken like CordovaWebViewClient, super.onPageStarted etc can't resolve symbols. I also tried CordovaWebViewImpl and confused myself.

After searching alot on google I found solution which were mostly given in 2011-14 which are not applicable. I couldn't found cordova docs helpful.

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 20 '16 at 08:42

9

It was replaced by SystemWebViewClient

You should do something like this:

SystemWebView wv = (SystemWebView)appView.getView();
wv.setWebViewClient(new SystemWebViewClient((SystemWebViewEngine)appView.getEngine()){
    @Override
    public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
        super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);
        Log.i("CSP Log", "onPageStarted: " + url);
    }

    @Override
    public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
        super.onPageFinished(view, url);
        Log.i("CSP Log", "onPageFinished: " + url);
    }

    @Override
    public void doUpdateVisitedHistory(WebView view, String url, boolean isReload){
        super.doUpdateVisitedHistory(view, url, isReload);
    }

    @Override
    public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl) {
        super.onReceivedError(view, errorCode, description, failingUrl);
    }
});

answered Jul 20 '16 at 08:42

jcesarmobile

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I don't know why it openning url redirect calls in browser instead of application – mumair Jul 20 '16 at 11:08
do you have an allow-intent tag for http/https in your config.xml? remove it – jcesarmobile Jul 20 '16 at 11:14
Sorry I was away in night. After removing allow intent redirect doesn't work – mumair Jul 21 '16 at 08:07
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Then instead of removing allow-intent, replace them with allow-navigation – jcesarmobile Jul 21 '16 at 10:14

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 20 '16 at 07:28

Cordova 4 removed the CordovaWebViewClient : look here

You may use WebViewClient instead of CordovaWebViewClient (The cordova-plugin-inappbrowser plugin use that for override onPageStarted event).

public class CustomCordovaWebViewClient extends WebViewClient

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

Apache cordova removed CordovaWebViewClient inorder to support external webviews like Crosswalk. If you check out the 14 changed files link in the following commit link, you could see CordovaWebViewClient is removed and AndroidWebViewClient is added.

So i guess you cannot use the same old code work in Cordova 6.0

You can probably try using org.apache.cordova.engine.SystemWebViewClient instead.

Infact, the same question is answered here and it was also accepted. So i believe this is the possible solution to the issue. Hope it helps.

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