How do you catch the intent for opening a web page?

Question

Hi

I am trying to catch the intent that is fired when someone clicks on a hyperlink to a web page in the Mms browser. I have this in the manifest:

        </intent-filter>
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <data android:scheme="http" />
        </intent-filter>

However, when I click on http://www.ibm.com it only launches Browser. Same when I do $ am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d http://www.ibm.com in an adb shell. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Thanks very much, c

Answer 1

Copy the intent-filter lines from the Browser's manifest and it will work:

        <!-- For these schemes were not particular MIME type has been
             supplied, we are a good candidate. -->
        <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:scheme="http" />
            <data android:scheme="https" />
            <data android:scheme="about" />
            <data android:scheme="javascript" />
        </intent-filter>
        <!--  For these schemes where any of these particular MIME types
              have been supplied, we are a good candidate. -->
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <data android:scheme="http" />
            <data android:scheme="https" />
            <data android:scheme="inline" />
            <data android:mimeType="text/html"/>
            <data android:mimeType="text/plain"/>
            <data android:mimeType="application/xhtml+xml"/>
            <data android:mimeType="application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml"/>
        </intent-filter>