Open external links in the browser with android webview

The problem is you need to send an Intent to the default web browser to open the link. What you are doing is just calling a different method in your Webview to handle the link. Whenever you want another app to handle something you need to use Intents. Try this code instead.

@Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, WebResourceRequest request) {
    final String url = request.getUrl().toString();
    if (url.contains("message2space.es.vu")) {
        view.loadUrl(url);
    } else {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, request.getUrl());
        startActivity(intent);
    }
    return true;
}