Question

I want my intent to be launched when the user goes to a certain url: for example, the android market does this with http://market.android.com/ urls. so does youtube. I want mine to do that too.

Answer 1

I did it! Using <intent-filter>. Put the following into your manifest file:

<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='www.youtube.com' android:scheme='http' /> </intent-filter> 

This works perfectly!