Is it possible to close browser tab in android programmatically?

Question

I have an app which plays music from a local server and opens music player in the web browser but when the user goes back to the Home activity and launches Another activity which plays a video on the browser, The video opens in a different tab of the browser, while music tab does not get closed.

Can I close an already opened browser tab when another tab opens? If not. Please suggest some workarounds.

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 25 '13 at 12:21

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You can't control another applications life-cycle . so you can't close tabs that are running in the browser.

what you can do on the other hand is to use WebView to open the audio/video then you have full control over it (what and when) to load/close content.

answered Mar 25 '13 at 12:21

Mr.Me

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Except webview is there any other way to do this? – MR. Kumar Mar 26 '13 at 06:10

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 18 '13 at 04:52

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After lots of struglling ,i reached on conclusion,we cant handle the operation of other application without permission by owner of application,so i have found alternet solution using webview now its working.

answered Apr 18 '13 at 04:52

MR. Kumar

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Could you please give more details how you did it? maybe with few code snippets would be awesom – Aditya Jun 07 '13 at 05:24
@adi can u tell me your problem in detail – MR. Kumar Jun 07 '13 at 18:46
I want to do this too - please share how you did it. Ref: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24442658/android-chrome-shortcut-to-close-browser-tabs – Sonicthoughts Jun 27 '14 at 01:26
I did it using some peice of code.i will post here when i will be with my PC. :) – MR. Kumar Jun 30 '14 at 05:41

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 26 '19 at 07:32

it isn;t the good way to do so, if you are interested in this then the code would be like this

List<ActivityManager.RunningAppProcessInfo> list = servMng.getRunningAppProcesses();
if(list != null){
 for(int i=0;i<list.size();++i){
  if("com.android.browser".matches(list.get(i).processName)){
   int pid = android.os.Process.getUidForName("com.android.browser");
         android.os.Process.killProcess(pid);
  }
 }
}

Is it possible to close browser tab in android programmatically?

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