I am trying to open location settings from Chrome (on Android) on a button click using Android Intents. I am following the Barcode Scanner example and tried encoding the url similar way. For location I have tried this:-
const uri = "intent://com.google.android.gms.location.settings.GOOGLE_LOCATION_SETTINGS#Intent;action=com.google.android.gms.location.settings.GOOGLE_LOCATION_SETTINGS;end"
I also tried opening settings using this:-
const uri = "intent://ACTION_SETTINGS#Intent;action=android.provider.Settings.ACTION_SETTINGS;end"
or this
const uri = "intent://android.provider.Settings.ACTION_SETTINGS#Intent;action=android.provider.Settings.ACTION_SETTINGS;end"
But nothing seems to work. Any help is appreciated.
I am attaching it to a button using href tag.
Seems you can't open Location Settings directly from Android Intents with Chrome because Settings Activities didn't support BROWSABLE category (for details take a look at this question of Dickeylth and answer of Rafal Malek). But You can 100% do this via custom android application and Deep Links to custom Activity with <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/> support, like in that tutorial.
In that case your application SettingsActivity code should be like:
public class SettingsActivity extends AppCompatActivity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); startActivityForResult(new Intent(Settings.ACTION_LOCATION_SOURCE_SETTINGS), 0); } }
and AndroidManifest.xml part for SettingsActivity
<activity android:name=".SettingsActivity"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/> <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/> <data android:host="open.location.settings" android:scheme="http"/> </intent-filter> </activity>
and, finally, "deep" link for SettingsActivity in HTML file:
<a href="http://open.location.settings">Open Location Settings</a>
Seems, if you don't want to install app on user side, you can also do this in Instant Apps. Details for links to Instant App you can find here.
