Thanks -
I don't have a URL to launch and I don't want to land on the google
web search page. The behavior I want is what happens when the user
launches the browser from the Home screen.
So maybe I should doing a PackageManager.queryIntentActivityOptions
for an Intent with CATEGORY_LAUNCHER and URI scheme "http". and then
use the ResolveInfo to start the Activity. Does that sound right?
String packageName = resolveInfo.activityInfo.packageName;
String activityName = resolveInfo.activityInfo.name;
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setComponent( new ComponentName( packageName,
activityName ) );
There are a couple of more followup questions inline below -
On Nov 18, 5:46 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> That Intent is okay, though there is no need for BROWSABLE. (As per the
> documentation, BROWSABLE means that the Intent came from an untrusted source
> so you want to restrict who will handle it to those that say they will
> protect themselves from such things.)
That surprises me because I interpreted the javdoc for Intent to say
that if you include a Category you must include ALL the categories
listed for that Intent. So if BROWSABLE is a category you would have
to include it - is that right?
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "empty URI" -- it says "empty string", which
> would just be a Uri created from an empty string.
The referenced documentation about WEB_SEARCH caused me to try this
intent -
new Intent(Intent.ACTION_WEB_SEARCH, Uri.parse(""));
but that results in this error -
android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle
Intent { act=android.intent.action.WEB_SEARCH dat= }
So I'm not sure what the documentation means here. What should I be
doing?
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:05 PM, jotobjects <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Thanks - I was afraid of that (although it is not quite blind luck).
>
> > The user's home page would be an obvious target, but there doesn't
> > seem to be a non blind luck way to find the home web page. The
> > browser seems to bring up the last page visited which is OK since that
> > will be customary behavior for the user.
>
> > I also tried this, which works but lands the user on thewww.google.com
> > web page with "http" in the input window. Is this a valid Intent?
>
> > Intent webIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,Uri.fromParts("http",
> > "", null));
> > webIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
> > webIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_BROWSABLE);
>
> > Also I do not understand this documentation for how to bring up the
> > web browser -
>
> > http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/g-app-intents.html
>
> > The WEB_SEARCH action mentioned there with an "empty" URI sounds like
> > what I want, but I can't figure out how to create an "empty URI" that
> > works.
>
> > On Nov 18, 2:52 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > That is a bogus Intent; it is just blind luck that it happens to only run
> > > into the browser as something that happens to match it, and you can't
> > count
> > > on that doing what you want anywhere else.
>
> > > I don't believe there is a generic action to start "the browser;" you are
> > > supposed to start it by asking it to view a URI.
>
> > > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:39 PM, jotobjects <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > > I want to invoke the internet browser app without giving it a URL to
> > > > open. I have tried a couple of things. What seems to work is this -
>
> > > > Intent webIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
> > > > webIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);
> > > > webIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_DEFAULT);
> > > > webIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_BROWSABLE);
> > > > context.startActivity(webIntent);
>
> > > > Is there another or better Intent to use? Is it good practice to use
> > > > the Launcher Intent for an app in this way?
>
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