Download file inside WebView

Question

I have a webview in my Android Application. When user goes to webview and click a link to download a file nothing happens.

URL = "my url"; mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview); mWebView.setWebViewClient(new HelloWebViewClient()); mWebView.getSettings().setDefaultZoom(ZoomDensity.FAR); mWebView.loadUrl(URL); Log.v("TheURL", URL); 

How to enable download inside a webview? If I disable webview and enable the intent to load the URL on browser from application then download works seamlessly.

String url = "my url"; Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW); i.setData(Uri.parse(url)); startActivity(i); 

Can someone help me out here? The page loads without issue but the link to a image file in the HTML page is not working...

Answer 1

Have you tried?

mWebView.setDownloadListener(new DownloadListener() {     public void onDownloadStart(String url, String userAgent,                 String contentDisposition, String mimetype,                 long contentLength) {         Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);         i.setData(Uri.parse(url));         startActivity(i);     } }); 

Example Link: Webview File Download - Thanks @c49