Determine element of url from webview shouldOverRideUrlLoading

Question

I am displaying a html in a custom activity with a webview. I am overriding

public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {

Answer 1

In addition to @Peter Knego's approach, there is the inverse:

1. Use addJavascriptInterface(), per his step #1

2. For your link, use an onClick attribute on your tag to call out some method on the Java object from step #1, where the Java object turns around and loads the URL into the WebView, and supplies whatever sort of identifying information you want.

Suffice it to say, there's no way to get the information you want from shouldOverrideUrlLoading().