How to handle custom protocol?

Question

I have layout with webView. In my activity I loads my page from my server. Page contains links like:

<a href="(custom or http)://load_1">Load 1</a>
<a href="(custom or http)://load_2">Load 2</a>

I want to load specific activity depending on the clicked link. How to do it?

Here it is http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4846296/android-sdk-webview-call-activity — Sergey Benner, Jan 29 '12 at 11:08

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 29 '12 at 13:18

Create an element in the manifest pointing to the activity you want, and then create an appropriate that specifies your rules. For example:

<activity android:label="@string/app_name"
          android:name="URLHandler">
  <intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
    <data android:scheme="http" android:host="www.this-so-does-not-exist.com" android:path="/something" />
  </intent-filter>
</activity>

How to handle custom protocol?

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