webview don't display javascript windows.open()

Question

I have a WebView in which i display web content which i have no control over. The content displays fine, but have links which spawn a popup window. The javascri

Answer 1

Please check with adding this -

    getSettings().setSupportMultipleWindows(true);

Answer 2

First of all, you need to set the following settings on your WebView:

WebSettings webSettings = webView.getSettings();
webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webSettings.setJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically(true);
webSettings.setSupportMultipleWindows(true);

Then you need to attach a WebChromeClient that overrides onCreateWindow. Your implementation of this method can create a new web view, and display it inside a dialog:

webView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() {

        @Override
        public boolean onCreateWindow(WebView view, boolean isDialog, boolean isUserGesture, Message resultMsg) {
            WebView newWebView = new WebView(MyActivity.this);
            WebSettings webSettings = newWebView.getSettings();
            webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

            // Other configuration comes here, such as setting the WebViewClient

            final Dialog dialog = new Dialog(MyActivity.this);
            dialog.setContentView(newWebView);
            dialog.show();

            newWebView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() {
                @Override
                public void onCloseWindow(WebView window) {
                    dialog.dismiss();
                }
            });

            ((WebView.WebViewTransport)resultMsg.obj).setWebView(newWebView);
            resultMsg.sendToTarget();
            return true;
        }

});

Don't forget to set the new web view to the resultMsg, send it to its target and return true, as mentioned in the API documentation.