React Native - open links in browser

Question

Hi i am using react native\'s webview to display some html, i want that whenever a user clicks a link inside that html, it will open the user\'s browser with that link.

Answer 1

Solution for those who use expo:

import * as WebBrowser from 'expo-web-browser';
import { WebView } from 'react-native-webview';

...

render() {

    return (
         { this.webview = ref; } }

            onNavigationStateChange={ (event) => {
                if (event.url !== uri) {
                    this.webView.stopLoading();
                    WebBrowser.openBrowserAsync(event.url);
                }
            }}
        />
    );
}

WebBrowser is installed via: expo install expo-web-browser