Kotlin Programming Cookbook

How it works…

The browse function provided by Anko is just a syntactic sugar, beneath which we have the same old code that we used previously:

fun Context.browse(url: String, newTask: Boolean = false): Boolean {    try {        val intent = Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW)        intent.data = Uri.parse(url)        if (newTask) {            intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK)        }        startActivity(intent)        return true    } catch (e: ActivityNotFoundException) {        e.printStackTrace()        return false    }}

Calling this method returns true or false, based on whether the action was successful or not.