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

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?

Intent browserIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.google.com"));
startActivity(browserIntent);

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);

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

The shortest version.

startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.google.com")));

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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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...

The short version

startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, 
    Uri.parse("http://almondmendoza.com/android-applications/")));

should work as well...

"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.

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://") && !url.startsWith("http://")){
    url = "http://" + url;
}
Intent openUrlIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(openUrlIntent);