Browsing by Intent
The simplest thing you can do with Android’s networking API is to open a browser on a web page of your choice. You might want to do this to provide a link to your home page from your program or to access some server-based application such as an ordering system. In Android all it takes is three lines of code plus a bit of setup.
To demonstrate, let’s write a new example called BrowserIntent, which will have an edit field where you can enter a URL and a Go button you press to open the browser on that URL (see the figure). Start by creating a new “Hello, Android” project with the following values in the New Project wizard:
| | Application name: BrowserIntent |
| | Company Domain: example.org |
| | Form factors: Phone and Tablet |
| | Minimum ... |
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