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Can you have a user open links externally? (8)

01-19-2022 12:27 AM #1 moe877 (Member)
Can you have a user open links externally?

Is it possible to take a user off of Facebook's in app browser either using some kind of setting or by having the user click on a new link that opens another tab in a traditional browser?

01-19-2022 12:51 AM #2 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

If I'm not wrong, this depends on the settings of a particular user, they need to set the FB app to open the links externally. The setting has been removed some time ago but now it's back.

More on that here: https://www.xda-developers.com/faceb...rnal-browsers/

01-19-2022 01:07 AM #3 moe877 (Member)

Unfortunate but yeah that's the best I could find as well.

01-19-2022 09:09 AM #4 jasclick (Member)

Yeah its possible, at least on Android. Google "intent android default browser". As said, only works on Android. It allows you to open another app with a piece of code. Including a default browser to open and browse to an url.

01-25-2022 01:46 PM #5 twinaxe (Senior Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by moe877 View Post
Is it possible to take a user off of Facebook's in app browser either using some kind of setting or by having the user click on a new link that opens another tab in a traditional browser?
I was playing with Android Studio few weeks ago and found out how to open the traditional browser instead of the app.

If the question is still relevant I can try to find out how exactly I did it.

01-25-2022 07:11 PM #6 jeremie (Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by moe877 View Post
Is it possible to take a user off of Facebook's in app browser either using some kind of setting or by having the user click on a new link that opens another tab in a traditional browser?
Do you want to do that from your landing page? Like with Javascript?

01-25-2022 07:20 PM #7 twinaxe (Senior Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by jeremie View Post
Do you want to do that from your landing page? Like with Javascript?
I guess he means getting the user from webview to a browser.

01-25-2022 08:08 PM #8 moe877 (Member)

Quote Originally Posted by twinaxe View Post
I guess he means getting the user from webview to a browser.
Yeah essentially. Though not automatically just an idea I had to want to test out a few things .

Ideally it would be right off the bat into the browser but its not necessary.


Quote Originally Posted by jasclick View Post
Yeah its possible, at least on Android. Google "intent android default browser". As said, only works on Android. It allows you to open another app with a piece of code. Including a default browser to open and browse to an url.
Good to know will have to test it out! Thanks!


Quote Originally Posted by twinaxe View Post
I was playing with Android Studio few weeks ago and found out how to open the traditional browser instead of the app.

If the question is still relevant I can try to find out how exactly I did it.
Let me see if I can try what @jasclick had mentioned. Also got some other stuff I need to get out of the way before jumping in to this anyways.

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