error: cannot find symbol variable Uri ANDROID

Question

hello i am new to android and i am having a webiste which i have converted into mobile APP just by using the **web view** and what i want now is a function to put into the android so that i can find all the phine numbers in the website and make it clickable and dial that number on call .

function to call. i have already aded

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE" />

and i have tried this in mainactivity.java

public static void linkifyTextViews(@NonNull TextView... textViews) {
    for (TextView textView : textViews) {
        Linkify.addLinks(textView, Linkify.WEB_URLS);
        textView.setMovementMethod(LinkMovementMethod.getInstance());
    }
}

EDITED

i have this is my mainactivity.java file

package com.business.i13bubbles;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.WebSettings;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;
import android.content.Intent;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
private WebView MywebView;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    MywebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.view2);
    WebSettings webSettings = MywebView.getSettings();
    webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    MywebView.loadUrl("http://www.13bubbles.com");
    MywebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
}

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    if (MywebView.canGoBack()) {
        MywebView.goBack();
    } else {
        super.onBackPressed();
    }
}

public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view2, String url) {
    if (url.startsWith("tel:")) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_DIAL,
                url.parse(url));
        startActivity(intent);
    } else if (url.startsWith("http:") || url.startsWith("https:")) {
        view2.loadUrl(url);
    }
    return true;
}

}

and i am getting this error

error: cannot find symbol method parse(String)

the id of my webview is view2

can you help me

EDIT 2

i think the error is here in this function

public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view2, String url) {
    if (url.startsWith("tel:")) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_DIAL);

        // Send phone number to intent as data
        intent.setData(Uri.parse(url)); // ERROR LINE IS HERE FOR SURE 

        // Start the dialer app activity with number
        startActivity(intent);
    } else if (url.startsWith("http:") || url.startsWith("https:")) {
        view2.loadUrl(url);
    }
    return true;
}

error: cannot find symbol variable Uri

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9408378/android-how-to-make-a-phone-call-from-webview - like this? — Yupi, Mar 17 '19 at 09:50

Yupi · Answer 1 · 2019-03-17T13:06:56.920

1

You didn't implement WebViewClient correctly in your example. What I mean is that shouldOverrideUrlLoading is not used, you need to implement that method inside WebViewClient for example:

 MywebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
        if (url.startsWith("tel:")) { 
                Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_DIAL, Uri.parse(url)); 
                startActivity(intent); 
                return true;
        }
        MywebView.loadUrl(url);
        return true;
    }           
});

edited Mar 17 '19 at 13:06

answered Mar 17 '19 at 12:34

Yupi

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i am getting more errors now like -- error: class, interface, or enum expected – Amani Mar 17 '19 at 12:38
can you tell me exactly how to use this function inside the mainactivity – Amani Mar 17 '19 at 12:40
now it does not gives me any error but it does not work every time i click on tel link it shows me link not availabe – Amani Mar 17 '19 at 12:48
Does your telephone prefix starts with `tel:`? – Yupi Mar 17 '19 at 12:51
yes – Amani Mar 17 '19 at 12:56

Gourav · Answer 2 · 2019-03-18T10:54:02.647

As discussed earlier in your previous question, you had placed the shouldOverrideUrlLoading() method wrongly. That was corrected.

In this question, you have this piece of code:

url.parse(url); //see the first code sample in your question

In this url is a string and cannot have a function parse().

Maybe this is causing the error. Let me know if there is another problem.

And a suggestion for you, you've named the WebView in the shouldoverrideUrlLoading() method as view2. If you change it to even just view, it won't create any problem.

error: cannot find symbol variable Uri ANDROID

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