Open external link with Flutter Web 1.9

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I have a Flutter web project, started with flutter_web and migrated to 1.9, all works great but no way to make a external link work.

There're some solutions in stack overflow but any of the solutions don't seems to works as expected, tried all from this link and similar other ones, I supouse the accepted questions would work before 1.9.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 21 '19 at 15:20

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With flutter 1.10, we can use universal_html package to open external link:

import 'package:universal_html/prefer_universal/html.dart' as html;
// ...
html.window.location.assign('https://stackoverflow.com');

answered Sep 21 '19 at 15:20

Spatz

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 26 '19 at 04:43

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As of today, you can use url_launcher to open urls for flutter web app. It supports both relative and absolute urls. https://github.com/flutter/plugins/tree/master/packages/url_launcher/url_launcher_web

answered Dec 26 '19 at 04:43

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 30 '19 at 19:20

Now you can alternatively add url_launcher_web dependency along with url_launcher and then use launch and canLaunch functions from url_launcher package for your web project as if it was mobile.

# pubspec
  url_launcher: 5.2.7            # the newest version rather than ^5.1.4
  url_launcher_web: ^0.1.0

Seems like it's a temporary solution though, to be merged with the main url_launcher plugin. For now it only works on web but ruins the mobile build (Flutter v1.12.16-pre.35).

Open external link with Flutter Web 1.9

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