How can I open a URL in Android's web browser

Question

How to open an URL from code in the built-in web browser rather than within my application?

I tried this:

try {
    Intent myIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(download_link));
    startActivity(myIntent);
} catch (ActivityNotFoundException e) {
    Toast.makeText(this, "No application can handle this request."
        + " Please install a webbrowser",  Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    e.printStackTrace();
}

but I got an Exception:

No activity found to handle Intent{action=android.intent.action.VIEW data =www.google.com

Answer 1

Chrome custom tabs are now available:

The first step is adding the Custom Tabs Support Library to your build.gradle file:

dependencies {
    ...
    compile 'com.android.support:customtabs:24.2.0'
}

And then, to open a chrome custom tab:

String url = "https://www.google.pt/";
CustomTabsIntent.Builder builder = new CustomTabsIntent.Builder();
CustomTabsIntent customTabsIntent = builder.build();
customTabsIntent.launchUrl(this, Uri.parse(url));

For more info: https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/customtabs

Answer 2

android.webkit.URLUtil has the method guessUrl(String) working perfectly fine (even with file:// or data://) since Api level 1 (Android 1.0). Use as:

String url = URLUtil.guessUrl(link);

// url.com            ->  http://url.com/     (adds http://)
// http://url         ->  http://url.com/     (adds .com)
// https://url        ->  https://url.com/    (adds .com)
// url                ->  http://www.url.com/ (adds http://www. and .com)
// http://www.url.com ->  http://www.url.com/ 
// https://url.com    ->  https://url.com/
// file://dir/to/file ->  file://dir/to/file
// data://dataline    ->  data://dataline
// content://test     ->  content://test

In the Activity call:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(URLUtil.guessUrl(download_link)));

if (intent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) != null)
    startActivity(intent);

Check the complete guessUrl code for more info.

Answer 3

If you want to do this with XML not programmatically you can use on your TextView:

android:autoLink="web"
android:linksClickable="true"

Answer 4

You can also go this way

In xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<WebView  
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/webView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" />

In java code :

public class WebViewActivity extends Activity {

private WebView webView;

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.webview);

    webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1);
    webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    webView.loadUrl("http://www.google.com");

 }

}

In Manifest dont forget to add internet permission...

Answer 5

Simple, website view via intent,

Intent viewIntent = new Intent("android.intent.action.VIEW", Uri.parse("http://www.yoursite.in"));
startActivity(viewIntent);  

use this simple code toview your website in android app.

Add internet permission in manifest file,

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

Answer 6

Okay,I checked every answer but what app has deeplinking with same URL that user want to use?

Today I got this case and answer is browserIntent.setPackage("browser_package_name");

e.g. :

   Intent browserIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.google.com"));
    browserIntent.setPackage("com.android.chrome"); // Whatever browser you are using
    startActivity(browserIntent);

Thank you!