Enable longClick in WebView

Question

In the browser, you can longClick on URLs. In my WebView, you cannot. How can I make it so you can?

Accepted Answer

I had this same problem.

Unfortunately, I could not find a way to make the standard browser menu options appear. You have to implement each one yourself. What I did was to register the WebView for context menus with `activity.registerForContextMenu(webView)`. Then I subclassed the WebView and overrode this method:

```
@Override
protected void onCreateContextMenu(ContextMenu menu) {
    super.onCreateContextMenu(menu);

HitTestResult result = getHitTestResult();

MenuItem.OnMenuItemClickListener handler = new MenuItem.OnMenuItemClickListener() {
        public boolean onMenuItemClick(MenuItem item) {
                // do the menu action
                return true;
        }
    };

if (result.getType() == HitTestResult.IMAGE_TYPE ||
            result.getType() == HitTestResult.SRC_IMAGE_ANCHOR_TYPE) {
        // Menu options for an image.
        //set the header title to the image url
        menu.setHeaderTitle(result.getExtra());
        menu.add(0, ID_SAVEIMAGE, 0, "Save Image").setOnMenuItemClickListener(handler);
        menu.add(0, ID_VIEWIMAGE, 0, "View Image").setOnMenuItemClickListener(handler);
    } else if (result.getType() == HitTestResult.ANCHOR_TYPE ||
            result.getType() == HitTestResult.SRC_ANCHOR_TYPE) {
        // Menu options for a hyperlink.
        //set the header title to the link url
        menu.setHeaderTitle(result.getExtra());
        menu.add(0, ID_SAVELINK, 0, "Save Link").setOnMenuItemClickListener(handler);
        menu.add(0, ID_SHARELINK, 0, "Share Link").setOnMenuItemClickListener(handler);
    }
}
```

If you want to do something other than a context menu, then use an `OnLongClickListener`. However you want to intercept the long click event, the `HitTestResult` is the key. That's what will allow you to figure out what the user clicked on and do something with it.

I haven't actually implemented "Save Link" myself, I just included it as an example here. But to do so you would have to do all the processing yourself; you'd have to make an HTTP GET request, receive the response, and then store it somewhere on the user's SD card. There is no way that I know of to directly invoke the Browser app's download activity. Your "Save Link" code will look something like this:

```
HitTestResult result = getHitTestResult();
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(result.getExtra());
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null) {
    URL url = new URL(result.getExtra());

//Grabs the file part of the URL string
    String fileName = url.getFile();

//Make sure we are grabbing just the filename
    int index = fileName.lastIndexOf("/");
    if(index >= 0)
            fileName = fileName.substring(index);

//Create a temporary file
    File tempFile = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), fileName);
    if(!tempFile.exists())
            tempFile.createNewFile();

InputStream instream = entity.getContent();
    BufferedInputStream bufferedInputStream = new BufferedInputStream(inputStream);
    //Read bytes into the buffer
    ByteArrayBuffer buffer = new ByteArrayBuffer(50);
    int current = 0;
    while ((current = bufferedInputStream.read()) != -1) {
            buffer.append((byte) current);
    }

//Write the buffer to the file
    FileOutputStream stream = new FileOutputStream(tempFile);
    stream.write(buffer.toByteArray());
    stream.close();
}
```

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