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

android, android-browser, android-intent, url

Solution

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://".

In Kotlin:

if (!url.startsWith("http://") && !url.startsWith("https://")) {
    url = "http://$url"
}

val browserIntent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url))
startActivity(browserIntent)

Problem

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 ```

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