WebPage loading on browser instead of Webview in Activity

Question

In my xml file I'm having text and below that text,I have placed a webview. I am trying to open google's home page in Webview. Instead of opening in webview,webpage is opening on browser.What I want is web page should load in webview which is below some text.Below is my code:

           <TextView
                  android:id="@+id/txt"

                  android:text="Hello Android"
                  android:textSize="30sp"
                  android:textStyle="bold"
                  android:textColor="#003399"
                  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                  android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
                  />

      <WebView 

                 android:id="@+id/webview"
                 android:layout_marginTop="50dp"
                 android:layout_below="@id/txt"
                 android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                 android:layout_width="fill_parent"/>

Kindly help to solve this.Thank you

Make sure you override `shouldOverrideUrlLoading` as detailed here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2379054/833647 — Ken Wolf, Nov 25 '13 at 13:21

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 25 '13 at 17:31

This is because a combination of two things:

the WebViewClient is not set (set to null), this makes the WebView try and offer every navigation as an intent to the system. Since you have a browser installed the system will try to handle that navigation there.
going to google.com ususally results in a redirect, which is why the stuff about navigations in the previous point matters.

Try this:

webview = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
webview.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 14 '13 at 08:03

Create your activity and than use this code...

mWebview = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview); mWebview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true); // enable javascript

      mWebview.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
          public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode,String description, String failingUrl) {
              Toast.makeText(youractivity_name.this, description, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
          }
      });

      mWebview.loadUrl("http://www.yahoo.com");

WebPage loading on browser instead of Webview in Activity

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