Android Question Handling LongClick in WebView

[andrewj]

Hi,
I want to capture a long press on a URL in a WebView and offer "open in new tab" and "download" options, as well as just "open". I can detect the LongPress, but this doesn't have any URL information.

1. Is there a known way to get the URL at this point?
2. I thought about maybe simulating a single press from within my LongPress code, which will trigger the OverRideURL event, and I can do my handling there, but I can't find out how to simulate a click in code.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Andrew

 

[DonManfred]

Why you want to simulate a click in a LongClick event to use OverRideURL when you can use OverRideURL in LongClick directly!?

 

[andrewj]

Hi Manfred,
I don't quite understand what you're saying. When I'm in the LongClick event I don't know the URL, and OverrideURL doesn't fire if I've done a long click. Am I doing something wrong? Could you perhaps post a couple of lines of code to explain what I should do?

Thanks
Andrew

 

[NJDude]

Try the FlingableWebView library

 

[andrewj]

Hi,
I'm actually using the flingableWebView, but it has the same problem. LongPress just provides X and Y coordinates, not the URL.
Am I missing something?
Andrew

 

[NJDude]

What is it you want to do? you want to get the URL you're clicking when you LongClick?

 

[DonManfred]

Hi,
I'm actually using the flingableWebView, but it has the same problem. LongPress just provides X and Y coordinates, not the URL.
Am I missing something?

If i interprete the Link above correctly then should should have a look at the FlingableWebView´s Properties.

dim url as string
url = flingableWebView1.URL

FlingableWebView
Version: 0.02

• FlingableWebView
  Events:
  • DoubleTap (X As Float, Y As Float) As Boolean
  • Fling (MovementX As Float, VelocityX As Float, MovementY As Float, VelocityY As Float) As Boolean
  • LongPress (X As Float, Y As Float)
  • OverrideUrl (Url As String) As Boolean
  • PageFinished (Url As String)
  • SingleTap (X As Float, Y As Float) As Boolean
  • UserAndPasswordRequired (Host As String, Realm As String) As String()
  Methods:
  • Back
  • BringToFront
  • CaptureBitmap As BitmapWrapper
  • Forward
  • Initialize (arg1 As String)
  • Invalidate
  • Invalidate2 (arg0 As Rect)
  • Invalidate3 (arg0 As Int, arg1 As Int, arg2 As Int, arg3 As Int)
  • IsInitialized As Boolean
  • LoadHtml (Html As String)
  • LoadUrl (Url As String)
  • RemoveView
  • RequestFocus As Boolean
  • SendToBack
  • SetBackgroundImage (arg0 As Bitmap)
  • SetLayout (arg0 As Int, arg1 As Int, arg2 As Int, arg3 As Int)
  • StopLoading
  • Zoom (In As Boolean) As Boolean
  Permissions:
  • android.permission.INTERNET
  Properties:
  • Background As Drawable
  • Color As Int [write only]
  • Enabled As Boolean
  • Height As Int
  • JavaScriptEnabled As Boolean
  • Left As Int
  • Tag As Object
  • Top As Int
  • Url As String [read only]
  • Visible As Boolean
  • Width As Int
  • ZoomEnabled As Boolean

 

[andrewj]

What is it you want to do? you want to get the URL you're clicking when you LongClick?

Exactly. Can you tell me how to do that?
Thanks

 

[NJDude]

I don't think you can do that, but you can tap on it and grab the URL on OverrideUrl

Sub WebView1_OverrideUrl(Url As String) As Boolean
	ToastMessageShow(Url, False)
End Sub

 

[andrewj]

I don't think you can do that, but you can tap on it and grab the URL on OverrideUrl

Sub WebView1_OverrideUrl(Url As String) As Boolean
    ToastMessageShow(Url, False)
End Sub

That doesn't help. First I have to do a long press, then I have to do a short press at the same location. That's exactly what I'm trying to avoid.

Surely there's a way of either getting the URL during the long press, or "faking" the additional short press.

Any ideas?
Andrew

 

[NJDude]

Well, that can't be done with the library mentioned above.

 

[andrewj]

Hi
It turned out to be relatively simple. From the flingableWebView longpress event I fire a timer which in turn sends a Down and Up pair of motion events back to the same point on the webview using Reflection. Then I can handle the longpress in the normal OverRideUrl event. You have to use a timer to make sure the longpress finishes processing first. It's working now.

Andrew