Android, catch webview redirection url

Question

My web view loads a url that - after completing loading - gets changed to another url. how can I catch the new url. getURL() always returns the 1st url not the second. I can see the new URL if i use a browser but I can't get if from the webview.

Answer 1

You could use a webClient and implement shouldOverrideUrlLoading to intercept all the urls before the WebView loads them.

    mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {


        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
           // Here put your code
              Log.d("My Webview", url);

           // return true; //Indicates WebView to NOT load the url;
              return false; //Allow WebView to load url
        }
    });