How to make a native android application behave like web app inside one only activity?

Question

I have a native android app in which there are two activities, 1st activity contains a button and on action of button I want to start the 2nd activity. Content of seconds activity will be from a website. Is it possible to make the 2nd activity behave like webapp ?

If I use WebView in this case, it is displaying the website inside the activity but when I try to interact with the website, it ask to open it in the browser which I don't want. I want to interact with the website within the activity.

Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks a ton.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

Use below code... for open link in WebView itself instead of browser...

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_view);       
    WebView engine = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.web_view);
    engine.loadUrl("https://play.google.com/store?hl=en");
    engine.setWebViewClient( new HelloWebViewClient() );
} 



 private class HelloWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {

  @Override
  public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading( WebView view, String url ) {                 

     return false;
  }
}

see this link for more details... WebView should not open links in browser

Thanks Man..!! You save my day. – Vipul J Oct 05 '12 at 08:54 — Vipul J, Oct 05 '12 at 08:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 05 '12 at 08:26

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I think if you set the baseURL property when creating the Webview, you'll get what you want.

answered Oct 05 '12 at 08:26

Philippe Girolami

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First of all thanks for replying. But I use WebView in this case, it is displaying the website inside the activity but when I try to interact with the website, it ask to open it in the browser which I don't want. I want to interact with the website within the activity. – Vipul J Oct 05 '12 at 08:29

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 05 '12 at 08:34

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Create you're own Webview where you can override the default behaviour:

private class CustomWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
        view.loadUrl(url);
        return true;
    }
}

answered Oct 05 '12 at 08:34

D-32

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But how would I know the url which the user is requesting after baseurl ? For example - At first, I can load the base url in the webview, then user clicks a button in the website. Now how would I know the url of the page which button refers to ? – Vipul J Oct 05 '12 at 08:39
I'm not sure, as I can't test it at the moment, but I would think that in the method above (shouldOverrideUrlLoading) the parameter "url" is the url the link / button links to. Did you try it out? – D-32 Oct 05 '12 at 09:11

How to make a native android application behave like web app inside one only activity?

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