WebView not working, launching the url externally in browser. Displaying webpage inside app

Question

I made a home or main activity which has some icons and one of them is facebook, and by clicking it a facebook.xml is launched via intent

The code for that xml page is set as below:

<WebView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:weightSum="10"
android:id="@+id/webView" >
</WebView>

And I want to load the url: "http://www.j.mp/tkf4mApp"

The Java file which is linked to this xml file is as below:

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.WebView;

public class Facebook extends Activity {

private WebView webView;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.facebookpage);

    webView=(WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView);
    webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    webView.loadUrl("http://www.j.mp/tkf4mApp");


}
}

But instead of showing webpage inside the app in facebook.xml it launches browser externally, but i want it to be shown inside the app.

Answer 1

As per this answer: How to load external webpage inside WebView you need to set a WebViewClient before you call loadUrl:

webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());

The reason you're being sent to the browser is that if no WebViewClient is set then the default action for navigations is to forward them to the browser.