Opening Browser on push notification

Question

I am trying to open the browser with a url when the user click on the push notification, i search in stackoverflow and i find this

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Answer 1

What you need to do is set a pending intent - which will be invoked when the user clicks the notification. (Above you just started an activity...)

Here's a sample code :

private void createNotification(String text, String link){

    NotificationCompat.Builder notificationBuilder =
        new NotificationCompat.Builder(this)
    .setAutoCancel(true)
    .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.app_icon)
    .setContentTitle(text);

    NotificationManager mNotificationManager =
        (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);

    // pending implicit intent to view url
    Intent resultIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    resultIntent.setData(Uri.parse(link));

    PendingIntent pending = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0, resultIntent, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);
    notificationBuilder.setContentIntent(pending);

    // using the same tag and Id causes the new notification to replace an existing one
    mNotificationManager.notify(String.valueOf(System.currentTimeMillis()), PUSH, notificationBuilder.build());
}

Edit 1 : I changed the answer to use PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT for the sample purpose. Thanks Aviv Ben Shabat for the comment.

Edit 2 : Following Alex Zezekalo's comment, note that opening the notification from the lock screen, assuming chrome is used, will fail as explained in the open issue : https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=455126 -
Chrome will ignore the intent, and you should be able to find in your logcat - E/cr_document.CLActivity﹕ Ignoring intent: Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=http://google.com/... flg=0x1000c000 cmp=com.android.chrome/com.google.android.apps.chrome.Main (has extras) }