How to open default browser

Question

Can we make use of default browser instead of the WebView browser Is there ny API for the default browser.....

or we have to compulsory create our own browser through WebView

score 13 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 10 '13 at 06:59

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You have to import intent.

String url = "http://www.google.com";
Intent browserIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(browserIntent);

edited Dec 10 '13 at 06:59

Niranj Patel

answered Jan 22 '13 at 13:25

Anas Khan

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 22 '11 at 09:02

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You can use an Intent with ACTION_VIEW to open the browser with your URL. Would be something like that :

Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.example.com"));

answered Feb 22 '11 at 09:02

Valentin Rocher

Will this for sure open the DEFAULT browser? I can't find that in the documentation. And I found an alternative answer that also supposedly opens the default browser: http://stackoverflow.com/a/23622337/2212770 – Wirling Mar 04 '16 at 13:25

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 10 '13 at 06:58

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Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,Uri.parse(value));
startActivity(i);

value is your URL address.

edited Dec 10 '13 at 06:58

Java Man

answered Feb 22 '11 at 09:04

Niranj Patel

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 17 '15 at 23:33

This is a late answer but if you just need to open the default browser without an url you can use about:blank, i.e.:

Intent blankIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("about:blank"));
startActivity(blankIntent);

Tested with:

Stock Browser, Chrome, Firefox and Opera for Android

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