open link from webview

[peppeg85]

hi, i feed the webview from an html source, how can i capture the tap on a link event to open the link with an external browser?
i've seen the various functions like

function handleEventFromWebView(){
oWebViewInterface.on('anyEvent', function(eventData){
// perform action on event
});
}

function emitEventToWebView(){
oWebViewInterface.emit('anyEvent', eventData);
}

function callJSFunction(){
oWebViewInterface.callJSFunction('functionName', args, function(result){

});

}

i think i could use one of them, but how capture the 'tap on link' event (ios and android)? thank you

[mtenus]

Hi

@peppeg85 You could use an event 'loadStarted', then handle link and use "openUrl" method from utils library

  webView.on('loadStarted', (args: LoadEventData) => {
    if(args.url.indexOf('some_string')==-1) {
            utils.openUrl(args.url);
        }
      });

[peppeg85]

hello, thank you, but I solved with the https://github.com/Notalib/nativescript-webview-ext plugin, thank you again,