Sending an Intent to browser to open specific URL

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I'm just wondering how to fire up an Intent to the phone's browser to open an specific URL and display it.

Can someone please give me a hint?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

In some cases URL may start with "www". In this case you will get an exception:

android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent

The URL must always start with "http://" or "https://" so I use this snipped of code:

if (!url.startsWith("https://") && !url.startsWith("http://")){
    url = "http://" + url;
}
Intent openUrlIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(openUrlIntent);

Answer 3

Sending an Intent to Browser to open specific URL:

String url = "http://www.stackoverflow.com";
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setData(Uri.parse(url)); 
startActivity(i); 

could be changed to a short code version ...

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW).setData(Uri.parse("http://www.stackoverflow.com"));      
startActivity(intent); 

or

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.stackoverflow.com")); 
startActivity(intent);

or even more short!

startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.stackoverflow.com")));

More info about Intent

=)

Answer 4

The shortest version.

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