Android App link - Open a url from app in browser without triggering App Link

Question

I have enabled App linking in my application. It works fine. But in my application there are some scenarios where i cannot handle the incoming url. In those cases i want to

Answer 1

String data = "example.com/your_url?param=some_param";
Intent defaultBrowser = Intent.makeMainSelectorActivity(Intent.ACTION_MAIN, Intent.CATEGORY_APP_BROWSER);
defaultBrowser.setData(data);
startActivity(defaultBrowser);

this technique (using makeMainSelectorActivity) will force the link to open in the device's default browser

Note - makeMainSelectorActivity only works for API level 15 and above.

If you need to support API levels lower than 15, you could try this hack

Answer 2

        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58800240/android-app-link-open-a-url-from-app-in-browser-without-triggering-app-link"));
        Intent chooseIntent = Intent.createChooser(intent, "Choose from below");
        startActivity(chooseIntent);

This will open all the installed web browsers from which user can choose!

Answer 3

In Kotlin, try using makeMainSelectorActivity :

val defaultBrowser = Intent.makeMainSelectorActivity(Intent.ACTION_MAIN, Intent.CATEGORY_APP_BROWSER)
defaultBrowser.data = Uri.parse("https://yoururl.com/")
startActivity(defaultBrowser)

Answer 4

Unfortunately, we can't exclude any certain URL, since Android doesn't provide that option.

But you can handle using path prefix.

// To handle:
http://myhost.com/v/page1?id=123
// To exclude:
http://myhost.com/v/page2?id=123

then in manifiest

<data android:scheme="http"
      android:host="myhost.com"
      android:pathPrefix="/v/page1" />