Prevent WebView from loading specific URLs

Question

I am developing a web view app for my company website. In the articles pages, we have links to related products. For example site.com/product/product name. How can I disable all the link that starts with site.com/product/ ? I have searched here and other websites but I could not find a solution.

 private class mWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
   /* @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
       
    }*/
   @Override
   public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
       super.onPageFinished(view, url);
       progressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
   }
    @Override
    public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
       super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);
        progressBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        

    }
    @Override
    public void onLoadResource(WebView view, String url) {
       view.loadUrl("javascript:var footer = document.getElementById(\"footer\"); footer.parentNode.removeChild(footer); var header = document.getElementById(\"header_main\"); header.parentNode.removeChild(header); var bread = document.getElementsByClassName('breadcrumb breadcrumbs avia-breadcrumbs')[0].style.display='none'");



    }
}

Answer 1

Implement the method shouldOverrideUrlLoading() as following:

@Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, WebResourceRequest request) {
    if(request.getUrl().toString().contains("site.com/product/")) {
        return true;
    }
    else {
        return super.shouldOverrideUrlLoading(view, request);
    }
}