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By default, WebView does not implement JavaScript alert dialogs, ie. alert() will do nothing. In order to make you need to firstly enable JavaScript (obviously..), and then set a WebChromeClient to handle requests for alert dialogs from the page: webView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() { ...

Android Activity package com.example.myapp; import android.os.Bundle; import android.app.Activity; import android.webkit.WebView; public class WebViewActivity extends Activity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceSta...

Basic Example package com.example.myapp; import android.os.Bundle; import android.app.Activity; import android.webkit.WebView; public class WebViewActivity extends Activity { private Webview webView; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { ...

If the web page a contains phone number you can make a call using your phone's dialer. This code checks for the url which starts with tel: then make an intent to open dialer and you can make a call to the clicked phone number: public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) { ...

Printing webview console messages to logcat To handle console messages from web page you can override onConsoleMessage in WebChromeClient: final class ChromeClient extends WebChromeClient { @Override public boolean onConsoleMessage(ConsoleMessage msg) { Log.d( &quot...

Layout.xml <WebView android:id="@+id/WebViewToDisplay" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:layout_gravity="center" ...