Support for other protocols in Android webview

Question

I\'ve created a web view app, the page that is displayed features market:// links but upon clicking them I get the 404 screen along with the error that the protocol is not s

Answer 1

For the links to work you have to have the market app installed on your device/emulator. Also your app need to request a permission to access network.

UPD: as a workaround you can call java code from within the webview, for example if you generate links like this:

..

Define a javascript function named go():

You then can pass in a handler object into the WebView:

webview.addJavascriptInterface(new Handler() {
        @Override
        public void go(String marketUrl) {
                         //start market intent here
        }
    },  "handler");

Handler interface can be defined as follows:

   public interface Handler{

    public void go(String url);

}