Deep linking in Android Webview | Create a Browsable activity with Android Webview

Deep linking in Android Webview | Create a Browsable activity with Android Webview

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In this post, we will learn, how to open External Url link in our webview activity.

Sometimes, someone send us a Url link and we want to open that url in our webview activity, because we don't want to copy and paste that Url in our webview to open, we will handle Intent and some code in our manifest file to open that url directly.

code in java file, (use that code just before loading your Url

 Intent intent = getIntent();  
     Uri data = intent.getData();  
     if(data != null)  
     {  
       url = data.toString();  
     }  

Some more code from Webview Activity for more understanding

 public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {  
   WebView mywebview;  
   String url = "https://www.instagram.com/harpreet_s2509/?igshid=q297jkyrgs2"; //default Url
   }  
   @SuppressLint("ClickableViewAccessibility")  
   @Override  
   protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {  
     super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);  
     setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);  
   
     mToolbar = findViewById(R.id.toolbar);  
     progressbar = findViewById(R.id.progressbar);  
   
     mydb = new DatabaseHelper(this);  
   
     if (getIntent().getExtras() != null) {  
       url = getIntent().getStringExtra("urlkey");  
     }  
   

     Intent intent = getIntent();  
     Uri data = intent.getData();  
     if(data != null)  
     {  
       url = data.toString();  
     }  

   
     mywebview = findViewById(R.id.webview);  
     mywebview.loadUrl(url);  
   
   
     tooltext = findViewById(R.id.toolbartext);  
     setSupportActionBar(mToolbar);  
     setTitle(null);  
   
     WebSettings settings = mywebview.getSettings();  
   
     settings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);  
     settings.setDisplayZoomControls(false);  
     settings.supportZoom();  
     settings.setSupportZoom(true);  
     settings.setBuiltInZoomControls(true);  
     settings.setCacheMode(WebSettings.LOAD_CACHE_ELSE_NETWORK); 
     settings.setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);  
     settings.setUseWideViewPort(true);  
     settings.setDomStorageEnabled(true);  
     settings.setAppCacheEnabled(true);  
     settings.setLoadsImagesAutomatically(true);  
     if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {  
       settings.setMixedContentMode(WebSettings.MIXED_CONTENT_ALWAYS_ALLOW);  
     }  
   
     mywebview.clearHistory();  
     mywebview.clearCache(true);  
     registerForContextMenu(mywebview);  

Do some code in Android manifest also with your Webview Activty

 <application  
     android:allowBackup="true" android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher" android:label="@string/app_name" android:roundIcon="@mipmap/ic_launcher_round" android:supportsRtl="true" android:theme="@style/AppTheme">  
     <activity android:name=".History"></activity>  
     <activity android:name=".Downloads" />  
     <activity android:name=".BookList" />  
     <activity android:name=".Srchvw" />  
     <activity android:name=".testfile" />  
     <activity android:name=".SplashActivity" />

  
     <activity android:name=".MainActivity">  
       <intent-filter>  
         <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />  
         <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />  
   
         <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER"/>  
         <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>  
         <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/>  
   
         <data android:scheme="http"/>  
         <data android:scheme="https"/>  
         <data android:host="*"/> <!-- * means get all type of URLS -->  
   
       </intent-filter>  
     </activity>  

 

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