Download file inside WebView

I have a webview in my Android Application. When user goes to webview and click a link to download a file nothing happens.

URL = "my url";
mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
mWebView.setWebViewClient(new HelloWebViewClient());
mWebView.getSettings().setDefaultZoom(ZoomDensity.FAR);
mWebView.loadUrl(URL);
Log.v("TheURL", URL);

How to enable download inside a webview? If I disable webview and enable the intent to load the URL on browser from application then download works seamlessly.

String url = "my url";
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(i);

Can someone help me out here? The page loads without issue but the link to a image file in the HTML page is not working...

Have you tried?

mWebView.setDownloadListener(new DownloadListener() {
    public void onDownloadStart(String url, String userAgent,
                String contentDisposition, String mimetype,
                long contentLength) {
        Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
        i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
        startActivity(i);
    }
});

Example Link: Webview File Download - Thanks @c49

Try this out. After going through a lot of posts and forums, I found this.

mWebView.setDownloadListener(new DownloadListener() {       

    @Override
    public void onDownloadStart(String url, String userAgent,
                                    String contentDisposition, String mimetype,
                                    long contentLength) {
            DownloadManager.Request request = new DownloadManager.Request(
                    Uri.parse(url));

            request.allowScanningByMediaScanner();
            request.setNotificationVisibility(DownloadManager.Request.VISIBILITY_VISIBLE_NOTIFY_COMPLETED); //Notify client once download is completed!
            request.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS, "Name of your downloadble file goes here, example: Mathematics II ");
            DownloadManager dm = (DownloadManager) getSystemService(DOWNLOAD_SERVICE);
            dm.enqueue(request);
            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Downloading File", //To notify the Client that the file is being downloaded
                    Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
           
        }
    });

Do not forget to give this permission! This is very important! Add this in your Manifest file(The AndroidManifest.xml file)

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />        <!-- for your file, say a pdf to work -->

Hope this helps. Cheers :)

    mwebView.setDownloadListener(new DownloadListener()
   {

  @Override  


   public void onDownloadStart(String url, String userAgent,
        String contentDisposition, String mimeType,
        long contentLength) {

    DownloadManager.Request request = new DownloadManager.Request(
            Uri.parse(url));


    request.setMimeType(mimeType);


    String cookies = CookieManager.getInstance().getCookie(url);


    request.addRequestHeader("cookie", cookies);


    request.addRequestHeader("User-Agent", userAgent);


    request.setDescription("Downloading file...");


    request.setTitle(URLUtil.guessFileName(url, contentDisposition,
            mimeType));


    request.allowScanningByMediaScanner();


    request.setNotificationVisibility(DownloadManager.Request.VISIBILITY_VISIBLE_NOTIFY_COMPLETED);
    request.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(
            Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS, URLUtil.guessFileName(
                    url, contentDisposition, mimeType));
    DownloadManager dm = (DownloadManager) getSystemService(DOWNLOAD_SERVICE);
    dm.enqueue(request);
    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Downloading File",
            Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}});

Try using download manager, which can help you download everything you want and save you time.

Check those to options:

Option 1 ->

 mWebView.setDownloadListener(new DownloadListener() {
        public void onDownloadStart(String url, String userAgent,
                String contentDisposition, String mimetype,
                long contentLength) {
 Request request = new Request(
        	                Uri.parse(url));
        	        request.allowScanningByMediaScanner();
        	        request.setNotificationVisibility(DownloadManager.Request.VISIBILITY_VISIBLE_NOTIFY_COMPLETED);
        	        request.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS, "download"); 
        	        DownloadManager dm = (DownloadManager) getSystemService(DOWNLOAD_SERVICE);
        	        dm.enqueue(request);        
         
        }
    });

Option 2 ->

if(mWebview.getUrl().contains(".mp3") {
 Request request = new Request(
                        Uri.parse(url));
                request.allowScanningByMediaScanner();
                request.setNotificationVisibility(DownloadManager.Request.VISIBILITY_VISIBLE_NOTIFY_COMPLETED);
                request.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS, "download"); 
// You can change the name of the downloads, by changing "download" to everything you want, such as the mWebview title...
                DownloadManager dm = (DownloadManager) getSystemService(DOWNLOAD_SERVICE);
                dm.enqueue(request);        

    }

webView.setDownloadListener(new DownloadListener()
        {
            @Override
            public void onDownloadStart(String url, String userAgent,
                                        String contentDisposition, String mimeType,
                                        long contentLength) {
                DownloadManager.Request request = new DownloadManager.Request(
                        Uri.parse(url));
                request.setMimeType(mimeType);
                String cookies = CookieManager.getInstance().getCookie(url);
                request.addRequestHeader("cookie", cookies);
                request.addRequestHeader("User-Agent", userAgent);
                request.setDescription("Downloading File...");
                request.setTitle(URLUtil.guessFileName(url, contentDisposition, mimeType));
                request.allowScanningByMediaScanner();
                request.setNotificationVisibility(DownloadManager.Request.VISIBILITY_VISIBLE_NOTIFY_COMPLETED);
                request.setDestinationInExternalPublicDir(
                        Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS, URLUtil.guessFileName(
                                url, contentDisposition, mimeType));
                DownloadManager dm = (DownloadManager) getSystemService(DOWNLOAD_SERVICE);
                dm.enqueue(request);
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Downloading File", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }});

If you don't want to use a download manager then you can use this code

webView.setDownloadListener(new DownloadListener() {

            @Override
            public void onDownloadStart(String url, String userAgent, String contentDisposition
                    , String mimetype, long contentLength) {

                String fileName = URLUtil.guessFileName(url, contentDisposition, mimetype);

                try {
                    String address = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/"
                            + Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS + "/" +
                            fileName;
                    File file = new File(address);
                    boolean a = file.createNewFile();

                    URL link = new URL(url);
                    downloadFile(link, address);

                } catch (Exception e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        });

 public void downloadFile(URL url, String outputFileName) throws IOException {

        try (InputStream in = url.openStream();
             ReadableByteChannel rbc = Channels.newChannel(in);
             FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(outputFileName)) {
            fos.getChannel().transferFrom(rbc, 0, Long.MAX_VALUE);
        }
           // do your work here

    }

This will download files in the downloads folder in phone storage. You can use threads if you want to download that in the background (use thread.alive() and timer class to know the download is complete or not). This is useful when we download small files, as you can do the next task just after the download.