Open activity after clicking inside webview

Question

How do we open an activity after clicking some specific link or button of a website which is from some website and open using webview?

Answer 1

Use shouldOverrideUrlLoading to give the host application a chance to take over the control when a new url is about to be loaded in the current WebView. For more information shouldOverrideUrlLoading

Try this it will help you:

public class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
@Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
    if (url.equals("url")) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(contxt, YourActivity.class);
        startActivity(intent);
        return true; // Handle By application itself
    } else {
        view.loadUrl(url);
        return true;
    }
}
}