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

Note : - After Android Nougat shouldOverrideUrlLoading is Deprecated

You need to use shouldOverrideUrlLoading along with shouldOverrideUrlLoading for better support.

Also, you might want to check if URL have mailto: or tel:, which are used in HTML5 to trigger mail client and phone dial respectively.

A complete solution will look like this now

@SuppressWarnings("deprecation") 
@Override 
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
    if (url.startsWith("mailto:")) {  
        //Handle mail Urls 
        startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, Uri.parse(url)));
    } else if (url.startsWith("tel:")) {
        //Handle telephony Urls 
        startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_DIAL, Uri.parse(url)));
    } else { 
        view.loadUrl(url);
    } 
    return true; 
} 

@TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.N)
@Override 
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, WebResourceRequest request) {
    final Uri uri = request.getUrl();
    if (uri.toString().startsWith("mailto:")) {
        //Handle mail Urls 
        startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, uri));
    } else if (uri.toString().startsWith("tel:")) {
        //Handle telephony Urls 
        startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_DIAL, uri));
    } else { 
        //Handle Web Urls 
        view.loadUrl(uri.toString());
    } 
    return true; 
}