Question

I’m searching for a way to interact with different android browsers.
My intention is to get the URL of the website that is opened by the browser.
My app should run in background and give an alert when a specific url is opened, for now this is for testing and to learn more about android.

Is there any way to tell the browser to pass the url-string to my app everytime a new url is entered?
I’ve already got the idea to implement a local proxyserver wich checks all http-requests for a specific url, but is there a better way?
aditionally this should work with every browser not just the standard one but also eg. firefox or dolphin.

I already searched the last few days but couldn’t find an answer….

Answer 1

Yes, you can do this! Check out http://seleniumhq.org/ for how to automate a web browser.