使用默认主页启动 Chrome（不是 about:blank）

Question

All examples i can find are intented to open a specific internet adress, but not just the Chrome browser with a new tab. Se below screenshots for the difference between opening a "about:blank" page, and a new tab:

about:blank :

New tab :

So this is my Activity Class right now:

public void openChrome(View view) {
        String url = "http://www.stackoverflow.com";
        Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
        i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
        startActivity(i);
    }

How do i ONLY launch the chrome app (so i return to the previous session), OR open it with a blank "new tab" page? Is there any way to do that?

Answer 1

UPD : Since what you're aiming at is not a plain "about:blank" page, what might've worked for you is either chrome://newtab or chrome://new-tab-page (as can be seen in chrome://about). If both crash the app, then I'd consider it a bug.

For plain blank tab use special about:blank as url.

Answer 2

Put the url of search engine that you want.

String url = "https://google.com"; //In My case Google

Or this to launch chrome

Intent launchIntent = getPackageManager().getLaunchIntentForPackage("com.android.chrome");
if (launchIntent != null) { 
    startActivity(launchIntent);//null pointer check in case package name was not found
}