Getting blank page in Android WebViewClient

Question

I am trying open twitter link : http://mobile.twitter.com/pawan_rathore88 in my activity. If I set WebViewClient to webview I am getting blank page. But when I load url without setting any webviewclient, it loads page properly. Does anyone have idea what can be a problem. Following is my code snippet.

webview = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
//if I comment the following line then webpage loads properly in default Android browser.
webview.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
   public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl) {
                 Toast.makeText(activity, "Oh no! " + description, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
               }
@Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {

    Log.v(tag, "url :" + url);
    view.loadUrl(url);
    return true;
        }
 });
    webview.loadUrl("http://mobile.twitter.com/pawan_rathore88");

Thanks, Pawan

What do you mean a "blank" page. Do you mean an error saying it can't load the page? — JoxTraex, Jan 21 '12 at 07:53
well the link works, interesting... Try just writing an application to just load the webpage and see if it works. something may be conflicting with it. — JoxTraex, Jan 21 '12 at 08:38
That I have already written, if I don't set WebViewClient, And simply loads url then it works like charm. — Pawan, Jan 21 '12 at 09:03
@JoxTraex If you know answer, then post it here. That all I want to say. — Pawan, Jan 21 '12 at 10:10
let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/6917/discussion-between-joxtraex-and-pawan) — JoxTraex, Jan 21 '12 at 10:22

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 21 '12 at 10:48

After tweaking the code around, it seems to be a user agent problem, seems that changing it to a desktop useragent fixes this problem :

  WebView web = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView1);
        web.getSettings().setUserAgentString("Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; " +
            "U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.16 (KHTML, " +
            "like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/533.16");

        String url = "http://mobile.twitter.com/pawan_rathore88";
        web.loadUrl(url);

Sorry, but its loading desktop webpages. Not that are for Mobile Devices. — Pawan, Jan 21 '12 at 11:19

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 04 '13 at 08:12

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That is exact my problem too. Load Desktop version very good but not mobile version. If running on default browser, then Mobile version normally run. I think the problem is not well perform user string agent. But cannot find it out now.

answered Jan 04 '13 at 08:12

Hanh Bui Sy

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 21 '12 at 11:12

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This is a problem with twitter at the moment and fails in all web kit mobile browsers.

answered Jan 21 '12 at 11:12

kkk

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the android browser extends the base functionality that is WebKit. Stop assuming so much Pawan, do some research. – JoxTraex Jan 21 '12 at 14:13

Getting blank page in Android WebViewClient

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