open android calendar with html link

Question

I need to open the calendar app on my Android Device using a simple html link. I was able to do this in iOS with href=CALSHOW:// is there something similar for android?

Answer 1

I don't know to be such link that WebView would support, but it's very easy to handle that link for yourself. I am assuming you're loading the web content (html) in a WebView. Inside the html you will have this type of link:

Open calendar

In the Java code, you will overwrite that link:

myWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient(){
            @Override
            public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
                if(url.startsWith("CALSHOW")) {
                    openCalendar();
                    return true;
                }
                return super.shouldOverrideUrlLoading(view, url);
            }
        });

And the method to open the calendar:

protected void openCalendar() {
        Intent calendarIntent = new Intent() ;
        /**
         * Set the time you need ...
         * */
        //calendarIntent.putExtra("beginTime", your_time);
        calendarIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_REORDER_TO_FRONT | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP);
        calendarIntent.setClassName("com.android.calendar","com.android.calendar.AgendaActivity");
        startActivity(calendarIntent);
    }

That is the work-around