open external link from a site opened in a webview on xamarin

Question

open my site through a webview, inside the page there are links with the tag <_blank>, but the application treats them as if they were not inside the webview (if it wants them to be pdf links). I tried to check around but I can't find anything that suits me. I saw that I can use the BrowserLaunchMode function, but I go back to the starting point because I don't know how to implement it in the webview and above all I don't know how to make the app recognize that I'm clicking a link. Could someone please tell me if there is a way to check when I touch the webview if I am clicking a link please?

Answer 1

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how to make the app recognize that I'm clicking a link. Could someone please tell me if there is a way to check when I touch the webview if I am clicking a link please?

Webview have a ShouldOverrideUrlLoading method of WebViewClient In the Android, if user click the hyper link, this method ShouldOverrideUrlLoading will be execute. You can use custom renderer for your webview like following code. You can get all of links by request.Url;

   [assembly: ExportRenderer(typeof(WebView), typeof(MyWebviewRenderer))]  
   namespace ImageLongClickDemo.Droid  
   {  
       class MyWebviewRenderer : WebViewRenderer  
       {  
           public MyWebviewRenderer(Context context) : base(context)  
           {  
           }  
           protected override void OnElementChanged(ElementChangedEventArgs<WebView> e)  
           {  
               base.OnElementChanged(e);  
               if (e.NewElement != null)  
               {                
                   Control.SetWebViewClient(new MyWebviewClient());  
               }  
           }  
       }  
     
       internal class MyWebviewClient : Android.Webkit.WebViewClient  
       {  
           public override bool ShouldOverrideUrlLoading(Android.Webkit.WebView view, Android.Webkit.IWebResourceRequest request)  
           {  
               var MyUrl=request.Url;  
               Toast.MakeText(Android.App.Application.Context,MyUrl.ToString(),ToastLength.Short).Show();  
               return base.ShouldOverrideUrlLoading(view, request);  
           }  
            
       }  
   }  

Best Regards,

Leon Lu

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