Intercepting links from the browser to open my Android app

Question

I\'d like to be able to prompt my app to open a link when user clicks on an URL of a given pattern instead of allowing the browser to open it. This could be when the user i

Answer 1

private class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
        setUrlparams(url);

        if (url.indexOf("pattern") != -1) {
            // do something
            return false;
        } else {
            view.loadUrl(url);
        }

        return true;
    }

}