The problem is you need to send an [Intent][1] to the default web browser to open the link. What you are doing is just calling a different method in your Webview to handle the link. Whenever you want another app to handle something you need to use Intents. Try this code instead.
private class CustomWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
@Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
if(url.contains("yourwebsiteurl.com")) {
view.loadUrl(url);
} else {
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(i);
}
return true;
}
}
[1]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html
share on whatsapp
Intent whatsappIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
whatsappIntent.setType("text/plain");
whatsappIntent.setPackage("com.whatsapp");
whatsappIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "The text you wanted to share");
try {
activity.startActivity(whatsappIntent);
} catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException ex) {
Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this,
"Whatsapp not installed", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); }
The problem is you need to send an [Intent][1] to the default web browser to open the link. What you are doing is just calling a different method in your Webview to handle the link. Whenever you want another app to handle something you need to use Intents. Try this code instead.
private class CustomWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
@Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
if(url.contains("message2space.es.vu")) {
view.loadUrl(url);
} else {
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(i);
}
return true;
}
}
[1]: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html
