Launching an Android Application from the Browser

Question

I have looked at several Stack Overflow questions with similar titles to mine. Each is answered, and the original author seems satisfied, but when I try to replicate their r

Answer 1

Try this, if you want to start your application from browser I've done this yesterday

1) On localhost make the html page

Test link

2) make a class

   import org.xml.sax.Parser;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class URLHandler extends Activity {
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);



    TextView uri=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.uri);
    TextView uri2=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.uri);


    if (Intent.ACTION_MAIN.equals(getIntent().getAction())) {
      String intentUri=(new Intent("yourownscheme://example.com/")).toUri(Intent.URI_INTENT_SCHEME).toString();



      uri.setText(intentUri);

    }
   }
  }

3) The manifest is below

4) When you installed you'r application on emulator, open browser and go to localhost tap the link and your application, if it's installed gonna launch, othervice it would be error