Webview email link (mailto)

Question

I have a view and view the site has malito code to send email. When I open the link opens in an error. I want that when I open the link opens Gmail app or another email applic

Answer 1

You have to create a subclass of WebViewClient and override mailto URL loading. Example:

public class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
  private final WeakReference mActivityRef;

  public MyWebViewClient(Activity activity) {
    mActivityRef = new WeakReference(activity);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
    if (url.startsWith("mailto:")) {
      final Activity activity = mActivityRef.get();
      if (activity != null) {
        MailTo mt = MailTo.parse(url);
        Intent i = newEmailIntent(activity, mt.getTo(), mt.getSubject(), mt.getBody(), mt.getCc());
        activity.startActivity(i);
        view.reload();
        return true;
      }
    } else {
      view.loadUrl(url);
    }
    return true;
  }

  private Intent newEmailIntent(Context context, String address, String subject, String body, String cc) {
    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[] { address });
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, body);
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject);
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_CC, cc);
    intent.setType("message/rfc822");
    return intent;
  }
}

Then you have to set this custom WebViewClient to your WabView:

webView.setWebViewClient(new MyWebViewClient(activity);