Android Question OverrideUrl not raised for WebkitWebView1

drgottjr said:

the author of webkitwebview has, himself, deprecated his
library in favor a new set of utilities. if you're having trouble
with webkitwebview, you may want to consider using his
newer library instead.

the overrideurl event works just fine with our core webview.
you might want to look into that, as you don't even need a
separate library to handle it. it might also help you to
understand what that event is meant to do and how to use
it.

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drgottjr said:

technically, for the purpose of shouldoverrideurlloading(), you only need the webkitwebviewclient module. shouldoverride is handled by webviewclient.
but let's take a step back. below i have attached a simple working example for you.

this is how you handle shouldoverride:

B4X:

Sub Globals
    'These global variables will be redeclared each time the activity is created.
    Dim webview As WebView
End Sub

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
    webview.Initialize("webview")
    Activity.AddView(webview, 0%x,0%y,100%x,200%y)
    webview.Loadhtml(File.ReadString(File.DirAssets,"test.html"))
End Sub

Sub webview_OverrideUrl (Url As String) As Boolean
    If Url.Contains("google") Then
        ToastMessageShow("blocking this url!",False)
        Return True
    Else
        ToastMessageShow("Cannot override this link!  Must load.",False)
        Return False
    End If
End Sub

it's unclear from your post whether or not you understand under what conditions shouldoverrideurl is triggered. it's also not clear whether there might be some other error in your code that prevented webkitwebview from working in the first place. run the example and see what you see.

edit: sorry, i just noticed a typing error: the height of the webview should be "100%y", not "200%y". it doesn't affect how the example runs, so you can leave it.

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drgottjr said:

i found and downloaded the deprecated ultimatewebview and run the author's example.
as with my example that i posted earlier, i used my test.html file as url to load.

Private Sub UltimateWebView1_OverrideUrl (WebResourceRequest1 As WebResourceRequest) As Boolean
works just fine. the result is the same as for my simple example using a standard webview. if you bothered
to run my example, and if you run the example attached below, you will see that both examples behave the same way.

i'm afraid the problem is your use and/or understanding of the event. i have never used ultimatewebview before, and
yet the example worked perfectly (for me) immediately on the first attempt.

below please find the example from ultimatewebview with my test file. load it and simply press the "go" button.
don't fill in the url. just tap the "go" button.

i'm sorry, but there is not much more i can do for you.

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