Sending an Intent to browser to open specific URL

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I m just wondering how to fire up an Intent to the phone s browser to open an specific URL and display it   Can someone please give me a hint

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To open a URL website you do the following   String url    http   www example com   Intent i   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW   i setData Uri parse url    startActivity i     Here s the documentation of Intent ACTION VIEW     Source  Opening a URL in Android s web browser from within application

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The short version  startActivity new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW       Uri parse  http   almondmendoza com android-applications         should work as well

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Is there also a way to pass coords directly to google maps to display     I have found that if I pass a URL containing the coords to the browser  Android asks if I want the browser or the Maps app  as long as the user hasn t chosen the browser as the default  See my answer here for more info on the formating of the URL   I guess if you used an intent to launch the Maps App with the coords  that would work also

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Is there also a way to pass coords directly to google maps to display    You can use the geo URI prefix   Intent intent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW   intent setData Uri parse  geo     latitude         longitude    startActivity intent

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In some cases URL may start with  www   In this case you will get an exception   android content ActivityNotFoundException  No Activity found to handle Intent   The URL must always start with  http     or  https     so I use this snipped of code   if   url startsWith  https       amp  amp   url startsWith  http            url    http       url    Intent openUrlIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  Uri parse url    startActivity openUrlIntent

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From XML  In case if you have the web-address URL displayed on your view and you want it to make it clikable and direct user to particular website You can use   android autoLink  web    In same way you can use different attributes of autoLink email  phone  map  all  to accomplish your task

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Use following snippet in your code  Intent newIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW   Uri parse  https   www google co in  gws rd cr     startActivity newIntent     Use This link      http   developer android com reference android content Intent html ACTION VIEW

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The shortest version   startActivity new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  Uri parse  http   www google com

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Sending an Intent to Browser to open specific URL   String url    https   www stackoverflow com   Intent i   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW   i setData Uri parse url     startActivity i      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     or even more short   startActivity new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  Uri parse  http   www stackoverflow com        More info about Intent

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Intent browserIntent   new Intent Intent ACTION VIEW  Uri parse  http   www google com     startActivity browserIntent

[android] Sending an Intent to browser to open specific URL

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