Android-意图过滤器，用于链接到浏览器外部打开的应用程序

Question

I have successfully set up an intent-filter in my Android app to open the app from the mobile browser based on one of many SO posts on this topic .

However, the problem is that the native app is opening WITHIN the browser, when I rather want it to open OUTSIDE of the browser in a separate app process.

By WITHIN, I mean that when I press the rightmost 'active apps' button to see what is running, I see that my current app is still the browser app, and there is no separate app opened called MyApp. It is as if the browser embeds my native app within itself, and so the browser is executing my app process.

And by OUTSIDE, I mean that I want to be able to see two active apps running after I press the link: (1) the browser app from which I launched (2) my MyApp app.

This is my intent-filter set up in AndroidManifest.xml:

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

    <data android:scheme="myapp" android:host="mypath" />
</intent-filter>

And I link to this from a web page opened in the browser using:

<a href="myapp://mypath">Open app</a>

How can I force the app to open OUTSIDE of the browser? One note is that when the app launches I don't see an 'app chooser' which I've seen for other apps.

Answer 1

By WITHIN, I mean that when I press the rightmost 'active apps' button to see what is running, I see that my current app is still the browser app, and there is no separate app opened called MyApp.

Your activity was launched within the browser's task .

It is as if the browser embeds my native app within itself and itself is executing my app process.

That is not what is happening.

How can I force the app to open OUTSIDE of the browser?

If you mean that you want the activity to appear in a separate task... ideally, that would happen by default. I'm surprised that a browser would not have added FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK when it started your activity.

That being said, android:launchMode="singleTask" on your <activity> element should give you the desired behavior.