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title: "How can I open a URL in Android's web browser from my application?"  
description: "How can I open a URL in Android's web browser from my application?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2015-06-08  
updated: 2015-06-08  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/23286/how-can-i-open-a-url-in-android-s-web-browser-from-my-application  
category: "android"  
tags: ["android"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How can I open a URL in Android's web browser from my application?

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## Replies

### Reply by Anonymous User

Try this:\

```
Intent browserIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.google.com"));startActivity(browserIntent);
```

That works fine for me.\
As for the missing "http://" I'd just do something like this:

```
if (!url.startsWith("http://") && !url.startsWith("https://"))   url = "http://" + url;
```

I would also probably pre-populate your EditText that the user is typing a URL in with "http://".


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