Open Link In Device's Default Browser. Crosswalk Android Application

I am creating an app for Android devices using HTML and JavaScript. I am using Crosswalk (15.44.384.12) to bundle this into an Android application, which pretty much creates an and

Solution 1:

Same here. All hrefs and window.open calls are opened in the WebView.

We can use a workaround that was also possible in Cordova: to intercept URLs in native Java code.

First create a custom XWalkResourceClient to intercept your urls depending on your needs:

XWalkResourceClient myResourceClient = newXWalkResourceClient(xWalkWebView){
    ...

    @OverridepublicbooleanshouldOverrideUrlLoading(XWalkView view, String url) {
            if(url.contains("whatever")){
                Intent i = newIntent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
                i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
                startActivity(i);

                returntrue;
            }

            returnsuper.shouldOverrideUrlLoading(view, url);
    }
};

and then in your activity, you can set that client to the XWalk view:

myXWalkWebView.setResourceClient(myResourceClient);