Simple Android App to launch URL in external browser keeps crashing

Question

I've read how to create a simple app that launches a website in the phone's external browser in this post. I followed those steps, yet my simple App keeps crashing.

I'm trying to create the absolute simplest possible app with the highest compatibility which simply opens a URL in the external browser of the phone.

These were my exact steps:

1. Installed Eclipse ADT with the Android SDK from Android's official download site with all the SDK packages listed here.
2. Created a new "Android Application Project".
3. Set the Minimum Required SDK to API 7: Android 2.1 (Eclair) (that's the lowest API version that allowed the creation of an Activity)
4. Left the Target SDK and Compile With to the default API 21: Android $.X (L Preview)
5. Set the Theme to None.
6. Left everything as default in the "Configure Project" step.
7. Left everything as default in the "Configure the attributes of the icon set" step.
8. Under "Create Activity", I selected "Empty Activity".
9. Left everything as default in the "Creates a new empty activity" step.
10. Clicked "Finish"
11. In MainActivity.java,

I replaced:

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    }

With:

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        String url = "http://www.YOUR-URL.com";
        Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
        i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
        startActivity(i);
    }

12. I added the two lines import android.content.Intent; and import android.net.Uri; above public class MainActivity extends Activity {

.

13. Saved the file, ran it, and then installed the MyFirstApp.apk (found in /workspace/MyFirstApp/bin/) on my phone

14. Launched the App on my phone, it asked which browser to use, and I selected "Chrome" and "Always".

Now, every time I open the App on my phone, it will launch the URL in Chrome, but as it's launching Chrome, I get an error saying "Unfortunately, My First App has stopped."

I've tried to create the simplest App possible, and yet it crashes. The above are the exact steps I took. Where did I go wrong?

Answer 1

Please add this line in your androidManifest.xml

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

For more information you can see the following link

Also u forget to call the super onCreate() method

 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    String url = "http://www.YOUR-URL.com";
    Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
    startActivity(i);
}