How can I open a URL in Android's web browser from my application?

Question

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(Int         


        

Answer 1

String url = "https://www.thandroid-mania.com/";
if (url.startsWith("https://") || url.startsWith("http://")) {
    Uri uri = Uri.parse(url);
    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);
    startActivity(intent);
}else{
    Toast.makeText(mContext, "Invalid Url", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

That error occurred because of invalid URL, Android OS can't find action view for your data. So you have validate that the URL is valid or not.

Answer 2

Simple, website view via intent,

Intent viewIntent = new Intent("android.intent.action.VIEW", Uri.parse("http://www.yoursite.in"));
startActivity(viewIntent);  

use this simple code toview your website in android app.

Add internet permission in manifest file,

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /> 

Answer 3

Within in your try block,paste the following code,Android Intent uses directly the link within the URI(Uniform Resource Identifier) braces in order to identify the location of your link.

You can try this:

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

Answer 4

android.webkit.URLUtil has the method guessUrl(String) working perfectly fine (even with file:// or data://) since Api level 1 (Android 1.0). Use as:

String url = URLUtil.guessUrl(link);

// url.com            ->  http://url.com/     (adds http://)
// http://url         ->  http://url.com/     (adds .com)
// https://url        ->  https://url.com/    (adds .com)
// url                ->  http://www.url.com/ (adds http://www. and .com)
// http://www.url.com ->  http://www.url.com/ 
// https://url.com    ->  https://url.com/
// file://dir/to/file ->  file://dir/to/file
// data://dataline    ->  data://dataline
// content://test     ->  content://test

In the Activity call:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(URLUtil.guessUrl(download_link)));

if (intent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) != null)
    startActivity(intent);

Check the complete guessUrl code for more info.

Answer 5

Check whether your url is correct. For me there was an unwanted space before url.

Answer 6

So I've looked for this for a long time because all the other answers were opening default app for that link, but not default browser and that's what I wanted.

I finally managed to do so:

// gathering the default browser
final Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://"));
final ResolveInfo resolveInfo = context.getPackageManager()
    .resolveActivity(intent, PackageManager.MATCH_DEFAULT_ONLY);
String defaultBrowserPackageName = resolveInfo.activityInfo.packageName;


final Intent intent2 = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent2.setData(Uri.parse(url));

if (!defaultBrowserPackageName.equals("android") {
    // android = no default browser is set 
    // (android < 6 or fresh browser install or simply no default set)
    // if it's the case (not in this block), it will just use normal way.
    intent2.setPackage(defaultBrowserPackageName);
}

context.startActivity(intent2);

BTW, you can notice context.whatever, because I've used this for a static util method, if you are doing this in an activity, it's not needed.