Question

I’m developing an android app and among other functionality I need to open some urls in external web browser. Can I programmatically set a default application for that, so the user won’t be able to choose from the list of available browsers? I mean, I want to set default browser only for my app but not for the whole operating system.

Answer 1

Yes, for this you can force your application to always open native android browser only. For this you have to identify the launching Activity of Browser application, something like this:

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.google.android.browser","com.google.android.browser.BrowserActivity"));
intent.setAction("android.intent.action.VIEW");
intent.addCategory("android.intent.category.BROWSABLE");
Uri uri = Uri.parse(url);
intent.setData(uri);
try
{
    startActivity(intent);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
   e.printStackTrace();
}