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I have my own MyWebViewClient that extends WebViewClient for my webView in my app. Instead of making complicated navigation bars that may not be supported on all models, I have implemented my own USERAGENT string on the webview and using the back end of the website, I show a different link on the page. I have made two links that are supposed to fire events when clicked. Here is the function I am using to accomplish this

    @Override

    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, WebResourceRequest request) {

        if (request.getUrl().getHost().equals("close.app")) {

            clearCookiesAndCache();

            return false;

        }

        if (request.getUrl().getHost().equals("showsettings.app")) {

            openSettingsMenu();

            return true;

        }

        if (request.getUrl().getHost().equals(SERVER_URL)) {

            return false;

        }

        final Uri uri = request.getUrl();

        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);

        startActivity(intent);

        return true;

    }

If the user visits the SERVER_URL string, which is the domain my webView loads, then we load the new page in the webView. If they click OUTSIDE the web address (example.com), such as notexample.com, then we start a new intent to open the external link in chrome or some other browser.

This works GREAT in my android environment inside Android Studio. When I added this to my live testing device however, clicking the links is trying to load them as a page instead of firing the showSettings event or logging them out like it does in my studio environment.

What am I doing wrong here that it's not getting the proper host string on all devices? Just in-case, here is my showSettings function, which again does fire properly in the Studio Environment (Nexus 5, and Google Pixel 2), my test device is a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge btw

public void openSettingsMenu() {

    Log.e(TAG, "They requested the settings menu");

    isSettingsOpen = true;

    startActivity(new Intent(Browser.this, appSettings.class));

}

Thanks for any help.

I solved the issue. Apparently on older versions you need to override the String Url instead of webresourcerequest. Once I converted to the string version, it started to work. I am unsure which version is deprecated, so I will use this one since it seems to be working now. Here is the updated working code!

   @Override

    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {

        super.shouldOverrideUrlLoading(view, url);

        if (Uri.parse(url).getHost().equals("close.app")) {

            clearCookiesAndCache();

            return true;

        }

        if (Uri.parse(url).getHost().equals("showsettings.app")) {

            openSettingsMenu();

            return true;

        }

        if (Uri.parse(url).getHost().equals(SERVER_URL)) {

            return false;

        }

        final Uri uri = Uri.parse(url);

        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);

        startActivity(intent);

        return true;

    }