Prevent android apps open webpages in native browser?
asked 2014-09-16 12:06:06 +0300
I am not sure if this is something other than "by design" and if I have misunderstood the reasons for the behavior please correct me. Also if this is a duplicate issue, please delete this. I did search but didn't get any suitable match.
Some (or many) android apps as I have figured are more or less frontends to embedded webpages, or at least temporarily for letting the user log in to a service or site. What happens in this case is that the jolla native browser opens instead to do whatever web-request that application issued (collect the session-cookies, whatever). This cause trouble with how the app is intended to work, I think they usually expect some integrated interaction within the android environment. What happens is that the apps sort of loose their connection to the flow of web-interaction and the only thing that happens is that the native browser just "takes over things" to be just viewing the web page. Maybe this sounds unclear, I hope someone understand what I mean.
I have for instance an app for a swedish tv channel, "TV 4", when I start the android app for it it just opens the webpage for that TV channel and the Jolla browser is not able to play the content. The android app would have succeeded playing it. If I do it in another way that I open the "tv 4" web page in firefox, and then click one of the streams there it opens properly using the app instead.
Is this something that can be fixed by modifying mime-types somehow?
Many apps seems to suffer from this behaviour that the Jolla browser "takes over".
EDIT: Maybe we are missing something in alien-dalvik, that usually can be done from an android settings screen. The ability to configure cache and settings for an app - being able to "clear" data and cache for a specific app. Alien dalvik seems to have no settings for anything, AFAIK.
I would like to have the ability to choose which app is used to open a link coming from an android app. My case would be a the android Dreambox App "DreamDroid". The app runs perfect, but when you click espacially the http stream links, jolla browser opens and does not show anything sadly. I would like to be asked by the system which app to use, everytime a new type of link with no current association is opened. In my case, android vlc does the job, but i now have to copy the stream url manually to it.
mosen ( 2014-09-16 12:57:17 +0300 )editI would like to see a response to this as well.
I use subsonic (android streamming applications) and if I click on videos (meant to be played in an external app like mx player which I already have installed) it instead opens the sailfish browser.
icebox ( 2014-12-05 12:42:47 +0300 )editMe too! My problem is Playstation apps for Android need to identify me by browser login.
paju ( 2015-01-04 14:49:10 +0300 )editI have exactly the same problem as the user 'mosen' has here above, I also want to watch my streams using the DreamDroid app :( but it's not possible directly :( it opens up the sailfish browser and downloads the stream as a file rather than streaming it :(
HtheB ( 2015-08-06 21:47:58 +0300 )edit@HthB most annoing is that my dreambox is still streaming to jolla and i have to manuallly kill the streaming server via telnet on the dreambox... Else the red LED on dreambox is flashing infinetly... Hope this gets resolved sometime.It is not very convenient.
mosen ( 2015-08-07 00:39:47 +0300 )edit