Android: How to Invoke skype from WebView?

I need to invoke skype application and make a call from skype when a 'skype me' link (eg: skype://1866012345) is clicked from a webview. Can someone help how to do this?

开发者_运维知识库I tried the following:

Downloaded skype application from market (in my driod 2.2). When launching skype, the package invoked is 'skype.android.raider' - as per ADB logs. So I tried invoking a ACTION_VIEW intent with cmp=com.skype.raider/.ui.call.SplashScreenActivity or cmp=com.skype.raider/.ui.call.SkypeOutCallActivity and data=Uri.parse("skype://1866012345"). These did not work.

(I also did find a few posts suggesting to use skypelite component, but I guess I should ve skype lite installed for that, which could not find in the market. I assume skype lite is not in market anymore.)

(Also, i have to be able to make a phone call or email when corresponding links are clicked from WebView. As of now, I have added custom handling for each of these, but wondering if webview by default would not support it. Is there any webview setting to be enabled t do this? Any idea??)

thanks!

Unless they're doing intent filtering or using custom permissions to disallow you from starting one of their activities then it is still possible. You have to start their activity explicitly as they start it doing the exact same action.

I've done it with the official Facebook app to launch viewing a profile directly.