html - Android WebView err_unknown_url_scheme

Question

With the simple below code I can get my url loaded correctly, but, I get "ERR_UNKNOWN_URL_SCHEME" when trying to tap on html links that starts with mailto: whatsapp: and tg: (Telegram).

Anyone can help me to fix this please? Unfortunately I do not know Java at all :(

Thanks.

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.WebSettings;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    private WebView mWebView;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.activity_main_webview);

        // Force links and redirects to open in the WebView instead of in a browser
        mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());

        // Enable Javascript
        WebSettings webSettings = mWebView.getSettings();
        webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

        // Use remote resource
        mWebView.loadUrl("http://myexample.com");
    }
}

Answer 1

You have to set a client in the webview and pass these to an intent

webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            if( URLUtil.isNetworkUrl(url) ) {
                return false;
            }
            if (appInstalledOrNot(url)) {
                Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url));
                startActivity( intent );
            } else {
                // do something if app is not installed
            }
            return true;
        }

    });
}

You can have a method to check if app is installed

private boolean appInstalledOrNot(String uri) {
        PackageManager pm = getPackageManager();
        try {
            pm.getPackageInfo(uri, PackageManager.GET_ACTIVITIES);
            return true;
        } catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) {
        }

        return false;
    }