I want to call android application on clicking of button on some website from mobile.
Suppose I am opening one url on android browser and I want to call my application on clicking on button provided by that site. How to do that??
Suppose we are using browser other than Chrome then is it allowing??
If you link to your application as "myapp://foo/bar", can't you use some sort of intent filter to start your application.
I mean, if you press a youtube link in the browser it asks if you want to complete the action with the YouTube app or the browser.
I have seen similar examples regarding Google Maps links (which would open in either browser, google maps(?) or GeoBeagle).
Please take a look at the WebViewDemo. Javascript code in the web page can call into your Activity. As well as the other way around.
You cannot... if the site is being browsed in the default browser (Chrome).
If you already have an application that embeds the WebView, then you can do some bit of handling of - mouse clicks, window alerts, navigation etc. Otherwise, not!
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As you can see here, i want to change the behavior of my Firebase Dynamic Link when it is typed into the Android Browser, because right now it redirects me to the PlayStore instead of Deep Linking into the app. How can i achieve such behavior?
While creating dynamic link you need to specify either you want to open any specific URL in browser or you need to open your app.
If you need to open your app when dynamic link gets clicked then at the time of creating new dynamic link you need to choose your app from drop down list instead of giving url.
If the app is installed already it will open it otherwise redirect you towards playstore.
For opening app from deep link you need to write code into your activity that can handle the coming deep link.
Chrome doesn't open the deep links some time due to wontfix bug in Chrome 40+.
Mentioned in link for detail.
Same is the case with Firebox and other browsers.
firefox broswer issue
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I have an android application say Sample App. I want to add App Links according to Android Developer Guide. I was successful in implementing them, but there was an problem with Chrome. When I access the corresponding Sample Web App and there is <a> tag with href="https://www.sample.com/profile" and it's also supported by App, it opens in app instead of continuing in Chrome.
I checked documentation and it is supposed to be default behavior of Chrome. But then I came across Linkedin app. The My Network tab they have when clicked in browser continues in browser but same link if I save to docs or any other application and click it then it opens in native app.
I want to know how this is done?
I believe this is because, as you said, the standard deep linking behavior is to route to the app if it is installed. This behavior is handed-off immediately when the link is clicked because your app overriders that url to be handled by app instead of Chrome.
First, I believe that you should route users to your application because its a better, more engaging experience, presumably.
If you are convinced, then I would change your manifest to strictly handle links that you want to handle. See this post to see how to handle only certain links.
I am developing an app that latest news from different online pages, magazines etc. In the app I only display the title, source and short description and when a news is clicked it opens on a browser to read the content.
What I want to do is to embed a kind of browser in the app , and when a news is clicked to be open inside the app. For example the links on Facebook app are opened inside the app.
I know how to use a WebView, and how to load a link in a `WebView, but I don't know if this is the right way.
Is there a library or some other way in order to provide the same output.
Web view control is generally used to open any URL within your application. Therefore you don't have to move to the other application like inbuilt browser, or chrome etc.
As Documentation says :
If you want to deliver a web application (or just a web page) as a part of a client application, you can do it using WebView.
I'm looking to build an android app based off a mobile site. Basically, I just need an app with a browser that I can use as a platform.
Many of the "build an app online" sites offer this, where you just put in the home url etc, but they all include their own ads etc.
Any ideas where to start?
If you want to make your own simple app without Ads, use just a WebView inside of a simgle activity layout set to fill the screen.
Doing this you will eliminate all ads, as well as have the ability to add in more features later on if you so choose.
If you just want to create a launcher icon that will open up the default browser to your sites page, you can do that by just starting a browser intent, and then closing the actual app.
This will allow you to have an app icon and play store listing, however the only thing that iw will do is bring the user to your website like you have mentioned.
Create an Activity with a WebView.
I think you're looking for an app that displays a WebView. However, that will only display the website as if you were looking at it in a mobile browser such as Android Chrome.
If you want the data from a mobile site, without anything else, then you have to hope that the site provides that, or you have to download its HTML and scrape it.
I would like to launch my custom app from web browser. I have found the answer to this question here: Make a link in the Android browser start up my app?
Now I would like to return some data from my custom application back to the web page that opened it and then POST it to the server.
Any ideas how to do this?
Matra
That is not possible, sorry.
You are welcome to have your custom application load some other Web page in the browser using an ACTION_VIEW Intent. Or, you can integrate WebView into your application and have much greater control.