Allow all 'market://' links from inside a webview to open Google Play store

Question

I have some links in my webview that are market:// links. When my users tap on them, it gives them a page cannot be found error.

How can I allow all links that begin

Answer 1

You can decide what to do by looking the scheme of the url, if Google Play Store app is installed you can open the detail page in Play Store app, else you can show Google Play web page of the application

webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
        if (Uri.parse(url).getScheme().equals("market")) {
            try {
                Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
                intent.setData(Uri.parse(url));
                Activity host = (Activity) view.getContext();
                host.startActivity(intent);
                return true;
            } catch (ActivityNotFoundException e) {
                // Google Play app is not installed, you may want to open the app store link
                Uri uri = Uri.parse(url);
                view.loadUrl("http://play.google.com/store/apps/" + uri.getHost() + "?" + uri.getQuery());
                return false;
            }

        }
        return false;
    }
});