YouTube link on WebView do not open Youtube

Question

I have been working on an appliction, the requirement states that i need to open a Youtube link on the web view. Once clicked on the video i need to open the Youtube application to play the video.

After lots of try had not been quite successful to achieve this goal! Looking forward for sugestions.

this is what i tried.

        wb = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.web);
        wb.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        wb.setWebViewClient(new MyClient());
        wb.getSettings().setPluginsEnabled(true);
        wb.getSettings().setPluginState(PluginState.ON_DEMAND);
        wb.getSettings().setAllowFileAccess(true);
        wb.getSettings().setAppCacheEnabled(true);
        wb.getSettings().setJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically(true);
        wb.loadUrl("http://m.youtube.com");


private class MyClient extends WebViewClient {

        @Override
        public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
            mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
                public void run() {
                    if(!pgd.isShowing()){
                        pgd.show();
                    }
                }
            });
            super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);
        }

        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            Log.i("url loaded", "url::: " + url);
            view.loadUrl(url);
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
            mHandler.post(new Runnable() {
                public void run() {
                    if(pgd !=null && pgd.isShowing()){
                        pgd.dismiss();
                    }
                }
            });
            super.onPageFinished(view, url);
        }
    }

Any pointers will be highly appreciated. Thanks.

You can get some idea from this [post][1]. [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/574195/android-youtube-app-play-video-intent — Sandy, Jan 31 '12 at 07:15
Have you found any solutions for this problem? I am facing this too :( — Wayne, May 12 '12 at 13:45

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 31 '12 at 08:20

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Well if you have the URL of video and also have youtube's application installed on android device, I have better idea.

Use startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,Uri.parse("url of youtube video")));

This will pop up user and will display option of browser and YouTube, and if YouTube is selected the video will be played in YouTube player.

edited Jan 31 '12 at 08:20

Ghost

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answered Jan 31 '12 at 07:16

Hardik Trivedi

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:) requirement says it otherwise.. i too sugested... but client is client :D – Abhinava Jan 31 '12 at 16:32

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 31 '12 at 07:15

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I faced the same issue and got the solution by adding this line:

wb.getSettings().setUserAgentString("Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.0; en-us; Droid Build/ESD20) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17");

Hope it works for you as well.

answered Jan 31 '12 at 07:15

Vineet Shukla

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Thanks, but i tried this already.. yes it works too but the web page is of the Desktop not for mobile.. hence it looks quite odd... :( – Abhinava Jan 31 '12 at 09:51

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 30 '12 at 20:54

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You need to implement the WebChromeClient and set it as the client of the webview. Then handle the video playback in the onShowCustomView callback.

answered Nov 30 '12 at 20:54

Ray

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 08 '23 at 13:01

If you want more control over where a clicked link loads, create your own WebViewClient that overrides the shouldOverrideUrlLoading() method. MyWebViewClient is an inner class of Activity.

WebView myWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
myWebView.setWebViewClient(new MyWebViewClient());


private class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, WebResourceRequest request) {
        if ("www.example.com".equals(request.getUrl().getHost())) {
      // This is my website, so do not override; let my WebView load the page
      return false;
    }
    // Otherwise, the link is not for a page on my site, so launch another Activity that handles URLs
    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, request.getUrl());
    startActivity(intent);
    return true;
  }
}

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 31 '12 at 07:29

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Try this in onCreate():

    WebView webview = new WebView(this); 

   String htmlString = "<html> <body> <embed src=\"link of youtube video\"; type=application/x-shockwave-flash width="+DeviceWidth+" height="+DeviceHeight+"> </embed> </body> </html>";

   webview.loadDataWithBaseURL(null,htmlString ,"text/html", "UTF-8",null);
   webview.setWebViewClient(new MyClient());

answered Jan 31 '12 at 07:29

Kanika

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cannot put in embed as i am suppose to show channel not only a video :( anyways thanks for sugestion.. – Abhinava Jan 31 '12 at 16:29

YouTube link on WebView do not open Youtube

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