Android and Phonegap: Intent to launch an other Application

Question

I found this code to launch the browser with an intent:

Intent intent = new Intent (Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);
intent.setClassName("com.android.browser", "com.android.browser.BrowserActivity");
intent.setDataAndType(uri, "text/html");
startActivity(intent);

It works.

But i'm not using Android SDK. I'm using Phonegap to make my application. So i'm looking for a way to launch this intent. I found this plugin: https://github.com/borismus/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/Android/WebIntent/

But it does not allow to "setClassName", "setDataAndType"....

Any ideas ?

The plugin you link to is for implicit intents. You need to create a plugin for explicit intents. See these answers for help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10043272/android-is-it-possible-to-fire-a-native-intent-from-an-application-wrapped-in — Gunnar Karlsson, May 21 '12 at 13:13

MeTTeO · Answer 1 · 2012-05-21T12:52:29.573

If you check CordovaWebViewClient there are several uris which are handled by Cordova out of the box.

If you don't want to play with plugins you could override it and add support for different, custom types of uris which in turn would lunch the application of your choice with parameters specified in the uri.

public class CustomWebViewClient extends
        org.apache.cordova.CordovaWebViewClient {

    public CustomWebViewClient(DroidGap ctx) {
        super(ctx);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {

        //Check if provided uri is interesting for us
        if (url.startsWith("customUri://")) {
            //Get uri params, create intent and start the activity
            return true;
        }

        return super.shouldOverrideUrlLoading(view, url);
    }
}

Above class should be used in the main activity (which extends DroidGap) of your android project:

@Override
public void init() {
    WebView webView = new WebView(this);
    CustomWebViewClient webClient = new CustomWebViewClient(this);
    CordovaChromeClient chromeClient = new CordovaChromeClient(this);
    super.init(webView, webClient, chromeClient);
}

The plugin which you mentioned allows to lunch an intent based on the uri specified. So for example if you provide uri starting with http:// android will recognize it as web resource and will try to launch available browser. So if you just want to launch browser it should be enough for you.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 21 '12 at 13:31

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If you just want to load a url in the Android browser then you should just use the ChildBrowser plugin:

https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/Android/ChildBrowser

If you are looking to start any intent then just let me know as the Android PhoneGap code launches all sorts of intents to get work done.

answered May 21 '12 at 13:31

Simon MacDonald

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I already thought about ChildBrowser. But the problem is that it launches the HTMLViewer, just as if I was not using "setClassName" method. I want to uses the Android Browser because the HTMLViewer doesn't do everything... – Toph May 21 '12 at 13:41
Use the openExternal method. It launches the browser. – Simon MacDonald May 21 '12 at 14:34
Simon could you pls help me with launching all sorts of intent? – Android Noob Mar 24 '14 at 13:12
The answer is obsolete now and the link provided no longer works. – dmcontador Apr 08 '16 at 10:49

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