I am creating a Browser App but Android won't detect my app in chooser while I click on any URL

Question

I am creating a Browser app and I want Android to treat my app as a browser and show up in the app chooser to open with.

I want my app to show up in this list.

Here is my manifest Activity code:

<activity
        android:name=".Activity.LinkDetectorActivity"
        android:exported="true"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
        <intent-filter>
            <data android:scheme="testscheme" />
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

"I want android to treat my app as a browser" -- what do you mean by this? — CommonsWare, Apr 15 '20 at 17:48
Whenever the user clicks on the link via an app like WhatsApp, Facebook, etc. Android prompts the user to select the browser I want to add my app in the list of all installed browsers. — Pritam Pawade, Apr 15 '20 at 17:50

Prashant.J · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-15T18:28:25.673

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Replace your intent-filter with below,

 <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
        <data android:scheme="http"/>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        <!-- The BROWSABLE category is required to get links from web 
        pages. -->
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
 </intent-filter>

</activity>

edited Apr 15 '20 at 18:28

answered Apr 15 '20 at 18:19

Prashant.J

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updated answer. also pls check the url which you are clicking? is it http or https? if https then add that scheme too. – Prashant.J Apr 15 '20 at 18:29

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 15 '20 at 17:56

Try to change testcheme to "http" and "https"

<activity
    android:name=".Activity.LinkDetectorActivity"
    android:exported="true"
    android:label="@string/app_name" >
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
    </intent-filter>
    <intent-filter>
        <data android:scheme="http" />
        <data android:scheme="https" />
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

sharing 2 links of 2 browser projects, check their manifest, try changes in ur manifest too https://github.com/scoute-dich/browser/blob/master/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml https://github.com/arunkumar9t2/lynket-browser/blob/master/android-app/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml — akashzincle, Apr 15 '20 at 18:12

I am creating a Browser App but Android won't detect my app in chooser while I click on any URL

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