android - how to prevent webview to load when no internet connection

Question

I have an Android app which has a webview. When there\'s no internet connection, webview will display page not available. I want to make this look like an app as much as pos

Answer 1

You'll want to override the shouldOverrideUrlLoading method of a WebViewClient to catch URL clicks.

To check the Wifi status, you'll want to use the ConnectivityManager

Try this:

WebView mWebView;
NetworkInfo networkInfoWifi = (ConnectivityManager) getSystemService(CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE).getNetworkInfo(ConnectivityManager.TYPE_WIFI);

mWebView.setWebViewClient(mWebClient);

WebViewClient mWebClient = new WebViewClient(){

    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView  view, String  url){
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void onLoadResource(WebView  view, String  url){
        if (networkInfoWifi.isConnected()) {
            //Take action
        }
    }

}

I'd recommend breaking your problem into two smaller steps - Click Interception and Connection Status Checking, and searching for them. This yields plenty of results, and I was able to use these two existing answers to put together the code:

Intercept Webview Click

Check Wifi Connection