Webview shouldOverrideUrlLoading not getting called

Question

I am making an ebook reader which uses epub format to load books into webviews. In some of the books there is an anchor link to some portions in the same chapter. Each chapt

Answer 1

In my case it didn't work because of POST requests on web page. shouldOverrideUrlLoading:

Note: This method is not called for POST requests.

Note: This method may be called for subframes and with non-HTTP(S) schemes; calling WebView#loadUrl(String) with such a URL will fail.

Override shouldInterceptRequest instead (one or both versions). See also https://medium.com/@madmuc/intercept-all-network-traffic-in-webkit-on-android-9c56c9262c85.