shouldOverrideUrlLoading in WebView for Android not running

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After some research I conclude that despite what most of the tutorials out there say, shouldOverrideUrlLoading() does not get called when:

  1. You load a URL like 

    loadUrl("http://www.google.com");

  2. The browser redirects the user automatically via an HTTP Redirect. (See the comment from @hmac below regarding redirects)

It does however, get called when you you click on a link inside a webpage inside the webview. IIRC the twitter authorization uses an HTTP Redirect.. Bummer, this would be helpful if it worked how all the tutorials say it does. I think this is from a very old version the Android API…

You might want to consider overriding the onProgressChanged method of a WebChromeClient like here: How to listen for a WebView finishing loading a URL? or the onPageFinished() method of the WebViewClient.

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