I want to show selected results from within a facebook group in my app but I cant seem to figure out how to do that. I have tried playing with "fb://group/{id}" intent with no success. It opens the group page in facebook app but if I try adding some extra parameters e.g "fb://group/{id}/search/?query=some_text" it starts the facebook app on its home screen. I assume this is because the uri is malformed. But I don't see any other method. There is a supported uri for search i.e "fb://search" but I cant seem to find any information about it.
The only way I know how to do it is to open the app, go into the menu, at at the very bottom in small letters it says View Desktop Site (or something to that effect). It doesn't even look like a link - but it is - and it will open the full version of FB in your browser. Then you can navigate as normal (including search). Hope this helps!
I'm developing a web app and I have an url that has the word "feedback" in its path. When I tap it, Chrome for Android asks me whether I want to open it with Chrome, with Firefox or with RssDemon (an Rss app I installed).
I played with the url bit by bit until I realized that it's the word "feed" in the URL what triggers that behaviour. It doesn't have to be at the beggining nor at the end. Anything like "feeding animals" or "linefeed code" would have the same effect.
I don't want to have to change my urls to avoid that.
The problem is not in the web app in any way. It's all the fault of RssDemon, the RSS android app. After uninstalling RssDemon, the problem goes away.
It seems that RssDemon set up an URL intent filter so that links clicked on Chrome that had the text feed in them opened with RssDemon. Being a link, it's likely that Android also offers Chrome & Firefox as options to open it.
The bad thing about that is that I can't do anything in my web app to avoid such a behaviour. The good things is that I don't have to :-) . It'll work fine for anyone without an app like RssDemon that installs such an intent filter. And you can't really protect from those, any app could set up a filter for any pattern and it'll be up to the user to decide then.
Some of the users of my website are telling me they find it annoying when they try to touch certain links and instead of activating the link it zooms into the link and associated metadata (which is made up of a few links).
So how many css pixels of separation are needed between the link and the associated data to stop this behaviour?
I also would like to know that, and eventually a js/css trick to disable it on demand.
You can also have a look at this question :
How to prevent google chrome android browser to display the magnifier when users click a button?
Do you know if it's possible to add URL shortcut to mobile screen through a link on the website?
So the workflow will goes like :
user clicks on a link on the website
pop up box appears, ask user to name the short cut link
user click on create and a shortcut been added to the mobile device's home screen with default icon.
I am interested in knowing whether this is possible for iphone and android devices. I've been searching for a while, but wasn't able to find any info on this...
This is currently not possible. You are only able to specify you icon to be added to the home screen, but not adding the shortcut directly by javascript.
in iphone you can do this in this way
in android you may do like in this way
We have a website that offers an e-mail service. We would like to create a fully fledged app for this but cannot afford this right now. In the mean time it would be great if we could give users an icon on their phones that will take them to a page formatted for mobile on the internet. So what I'd like to know is how can we get an icon on an android users phone that will simply launch a web link in a browser- does this have to be an app, is there an easier way, or am I over estimating how complicated it would be to make this as an app anyway?
Thanks in advance
Create a new Android project (after following the SDK installation steps provided at http://developer.android.com)
on the directory /res/drawable-*dpi you have the laucher icons. Modify all of them.
In the main activity, delete all inside the onCreate method an put this:
String url = "http://www.YOUR-URL.com";
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(i);
This will open the android browser with the URL provided.
I have done projects like this in the past, it is very simple. You need to create a website formatted for a smaller screen. Once you do this, building an android app that displays your website inside it is simple. You can even remove all of the android browser toolbars so it appears as if your website is a real android application. Google android webviews, this will point you in the right direction.
See here for what's probably the best instruction page on how to do exactly that:
http://intelnav.50webs.com/app_project.html
It's based on a Webview, that is it opens the page and does all the navigation in the app window, not in the default browser. So if you want to open it in the browser, you have to use Intent, as said in previous answers.
My 2 pennies worth, I think it's better in the app window unless you really want complex navigation with the possibility of opening additional tabs, windows and so on. The drawback with the external browser is that, as far as I could see, there's no way to tell if the page is already open in the browser so you'll launch a different copy (in a new tab) every time. If the user doesn't close the tab at the end, they usually don't, it can become quite annoying. Besides, within an app you'll probably have somewhat better possibilities for ads should you ever want them.
Versus a simple home-screen bookmark, as others pointed out, it's simpler and more convenient for end users to just download an app from an online store (usually Google Play). It's what they're used to do. And they do have a lot of additional info available, like what it does, what others say about it, screen shots (if you provide some for them but you should). Plus a way to comment / complain themselves. It's a different thing. Technically it may not make a lot of sense but from a simple user's perspective it's clearly better IMO.
One way is to bookmark the site and then add it to your home screen. Source
It seems to me like you need a mobile version of your web page. Do you have that already? Once you have your mobile website (ie. website optimized for mobile devices), you could create a simple application with only one WebView. All content would be fetched from your site and displayed inside a webview. This is trivial to make, however, making an entire mobile website will take some time.
Note that you do not HAVE TO have a mobile website, you could pack you existing website into a WebView, but this would lower user experience.
you would build an app that launches a browser intent linking to your website, or a custom WebView to launch your website in full screen without any navigation bar etc..
The only easier way is to put instructions on your site (directly, or as a contextual pop-up) on how to add the bookmark as an icon on your home screen. This can be slightly more complicated on Android, and depends on the browser. A simpler option for your potential users is to provide a wrapper app via the Marketplace.
It is not overly complicated to create a simple wrapper Android app in Java that launches the browser, using Intents. The essential browser launch code is basically this:
Uri uriUrl = Uri.parse("http://www.yourwebpage.com");
Intent launchBrowser = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uriUrl);
startActivity(launchBrowser);
A more detailed tutorial for creating this is available here:
http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/launch-android-browser/
Try this kick-start mobile device app for showing websites. Written with cordova for platforms like android, ios, browser and so on: https://github.com/jetedonner/ch.kimhauser.cordova.kickstartwebsite (GooglePlay: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.kimhauser.cordova.kickstartwebsite, Website: http://kimhauser.ch/index.php/projects/cordova-phonegap/kick-start-website)