Code in NativeScript to overload URL's in a rendered web page and display them in a content-appropriate way.

Nativescript-WebViewWithLinks.js

var webView = view.getViewById(page, "webView");
  if (webView.android) {
      try {
          var MyWebViewClient = android.webkit.WebViewClient.extend({
              shouldOverrideUrlLoading: function(_webView,interceptedUrl){
                  console.log('Intercepted Url was ', interceptedUrl);
                  utils.openUrl(interceptedUrl);                    
                  return true;
              },
              onPageFinished: function(_webView, pageUrl) {
                  loading.hide();
                  var message;
                  if (!args.error) {
                      message = "WebView finished loading " + args.url;
                  }
                  else {
                      message = "Error loading " + args.url + ": " + args.error;
                  }
              }
          });
          webView.android.setWebViewClient(new MyWebViewClient());
      } catch(e) {                       
              alert(e.message);
      }
  }
  webView.url = url;    

Thanks, much appreciated!
It is worth mentioning that this works on livesync, but crashes upon java compiling at build.
The fix is not to extend a java class directly, but through a reference:

var WebViewClientClass = android.webkit.WebViewClient;
var MyWebViewClient = WebViewClientClass.extend({