Android – launch google map via web url

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On the iPhone, a maps.google.com URL is intercepted and loaded by the native google maps application. I would like do the same on Android, but Google Maps is being loaded in the browser.

So, in a web page, is it possible to have this url http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=brighton&daddr=timbuktu open in the Android Google Map application ?

I see from this question that you can do it from another app via an Intent. Can you trigger these Intent's from the browser ?

Edit – On further testing, I've found that the user will be prompted to open the link in browser or map app for standard html links to maps.google.maps :

<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=brighton&daddr=timbuktu">show route</a>

I'm having the problem because I'm using javascript to set the window.location.href via a Location API callback (so I can get the user's location and then open the map). I've opened a bug report for this.

Best Answer

Typing geo:0,0?q=google into the address bar opens the maps activity and searches for google nearby.

I assume this will work from a link in a page, but haven't checked.

a full list of accessible intents here: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/g-app-intents.html

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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://".

Android – Send Email Intent

UPDATE

Official approach:

public void composeEmail(String[] addresses, String subject) {
    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO);
    intent.setData(Uri.parse("mailto:")); // only email apps should handle this
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, addresses);
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject);
    if (intent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager()) != null) {
        startActivity(intent);
    }
}

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OLD ANSWER

The accepted answer doesn't work on the 4.1.2. This should work on all platforms:

Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, Uri.fromParts(
            "mailto","abc@gmail.com", null));
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject");
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Body");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send email..."));

Update: According to marcwjj, it seems that on 4.3, we need to pass string array instead of a string for email address to make it work. We might need to add one more line:

intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, addresses); // String[] addresses

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