Question

I was wondering if there is a way to start a Browser with a yahoo search query. For example user can select a certain word or phrase and click a button and the activity will start the browser with the yahoo search query.

Answer 1

The quickest way is with intents, like so:

String query = "my search terms";
String url = "http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=" + query;
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(i);

Android will automatically attempt to open this in the application associated with URLs which, by default, should be their default web browser.