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I have a webview on my android application and I loaded a URL on it. In the URL, javascript code should reload the page periodically.

But when "window.location.reload();" is called, a browser app comes front and reload the url int he browser.

I know how to reload the page using android code from the application but I would like to know how to refresh the page itself in the url page.

Any tips please?

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Hi,

by default, the Android WebView opens links in the system browser. You need to override this (see Click Here) to change the behaviour.

Use this code:

webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            return false;
        }
    });

Basically, returning false on this request tells the client to use the current webview instead of launching the default browser.

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