Can't make my app appear in the chooser Android BROWSABLE

Question

I'm taking a course on Android and we have a task, one of them is to make a program called "MyBrowser" that they provide to us to be able to appear in the chooser if another program sends an implicit intent, I have researched and found this:

<intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>

<intent-filter>
    <action android:name="andoid.intent.action.VIEW" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
    <data android:scheme="http" />         
</intent-filter>

The first intent filter was already in the file and I have added the second one, but it doesn't work and I don't really understand why, the implicit intent goes like this:

private void startImplicitActivation() {

    Uri webpage = Uri.parse("http://www.google.com");
    Intent baseIntent = new Intent (Intent.ACTION_VIEW, webpage);

    Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(baseIntent, "Choose application");

    startActivity(chooserIntent);  
}

That is the only intent that I've tried to open.

Thanks in advance.

this simple sample might help https://github.com/commonsguy/cw-advandroid/tree/master/Introspection/URLHandler — kiranpradeep, Feb 01 '15 at 05:42

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 02 '15 at 22:58

Ok, I decided to copy paste the intent filters from the android browser and it worked, later I just started deleting random sets of < intent-filter> ... < /intent-filter> untill it stopped working and was left with this, now it works:

<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<data android:scheme="http" />

</intent-filter>

<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
</intent-filter>

Can't make my app appear in the chooser Android BROWSABLE

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