Opening the browser through an Intent and Posting data for PayPal

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I want to press an Android button and automatically direct the user to the PayPal site with all the relevant data POSTED along also. Is this possible?

This provides an answer with actual working code: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2643385/start-the-android-browser — Daniel Rodriguez, May 04 '10 at 16:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 28 '10 at 14:25

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If PayPal offers a URL where you can supply the data you want via a GET request (i.e., encoded form variables as part of the URL itself), then yes -- just convert the URL into a Uri via Uri.parse(), then call startActivity() on an ACTION_VIEW Intent on that Uri.

If PayPal does not offer a URL with GET parameters to accomplish what you want, then no, it is not possible.

answered Jan 28 '10 at 14:25

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Actually it looks like they do support get...it didn't expect they would. – jax Jan 28 '10 at 17:08
Hello Jax, did you achieve to do it at the end ? – Hubert Mar 06 '10 at 04:58
Yes, I used GET instead of post - passing each of the button variables (the form fields from the button you copy from paypal) in the query string. – jax May 10 '10 at 17:26

Opening the browser through an Intent and Posting data for PayPal

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