How can I open a URL in Android's web browser from my application?
How to open an URL from code in the built-in web browser rather than within my application?
I tried this:
try {
Intent myIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(download_link));
startActivity(myIntent);
} catch (ActivityNotFoundException e) {
Toast.makeText(this, "No application can handle this request."
+ " Please install a webbrowser", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
e.printStackTrace();
}
but I got an Exception:
No activity found to handle Intent{action=android.intent.action.VIEW data =www.google.com
Try this:
Intent browserIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.google.com"));
startActivity(browserIntent);
That works fine for me.
As for the missing "http://" I'd just do something like this:
if (!url.startsWith("http://") && !url.startsWith("https://"))
url = "http://" + url;
I would also probably pre-populate your EditText that the user is typing a URL in with "http://".
a common way to achieve this is with the next code:
String url = "http://www.stackoverflow.com";
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(i);
that could be changed to a short code version ...
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW).setData(Uri.parse("http://www.stackoverflow.com"));
startActivity(intent);
or :
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.stackoverflow.com"));
startActivity(intent);
the shortest! :
startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.stackoverflow.com")));
happy coding!
In 2.3, I had better luck with
final Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW).setData(Uri.parse(url));
activity.startActivity(intent);
The difference being the use of Intent.ACTION_VIEW rather than the String "android.intent.action.VIEW"