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OS: Android
Pri: 3
Type: Feature



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Launch Google chrome on Android from other browsers

Reported by sha...@companysocia.com, Nov 27 2017

Issue description

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open Samsung Browser
2. goto: https://test.webrtc.org
3. webrtc fails

What is the expected behavior?
When Samsung browser is used. Have URL scheme method by Google chrome so that we can switch from any browser to Google chrome browser. 

What went wrong?
Its not working suppose i am in Samsung browser and i want to switch to Google chrome browser with URL Scheme. It wont work: <a href="googlechrome://jump-from-other-browser-to-googlechrome"></a>

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 62.0.3202.94  Channel: stable
OS Version: 
Flash Version: 

We need URL scheme on Android Google chrome so that from any browsers we can launch Google chrome browser to complete our project requirements.
 
Cc: sandeepkumars@chromium.org
Components: -Blink Blink>WebRTC
Labels: -Type-Bug M-64 Needs-triage-Mobile Triaged-Mobile Type-Feature
Look's like this is feature request, hence adding appropriate component for further triage.

Thanks!!
Thank you Sandeep. Yes indeed. I have been struggling a lot to redirect other browser to Google chrome. As other browsers do not have compatible modern component. There are many random cases where i needed to switch from other browsers to Google chrome so that
the application works friendly.

URL-Scheme is the solution but Google chrome still do not have any kind of URL-Scheme to launch the Google chrome from other browsers.

It would be nice to have it. I have done C++ code on old Chromium 46 and it worked but i need it in official Google chrome so that its natively available.

Comment 3 by guidou@chromium.org, Nov 28 2017

Components: -Blink>WebRTC UI>Browser>Mobile
Switching component to something that looks more related to the issue.
Thank you. Proposed.

1. From XXXX browser URL-Scheme is clicked/triggered to compile modern tools such as: https://test.webrtc.org

2. Google chrome receives the URL-Scheme request and ask "Do you want to make Google chrome your default browser"? yes or no

3. on yes
Make the Google chrome default browser and then complete the request
on no leave the default browser as it was and then complete the request


Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
*** Bulk edit ***

Setting Feature Requests as: Untriaged 

Comment 6 by peconn@chromium.org, Mar 13 2018

Cc: peconn@chromium.org
Labels: -Pri-2 android-fe-triaged Needs-Feedback Pri-3
Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
Stable builds of Chrome have an intent filter for URLs with the scheme googlechrome://. You can try this Intent out with adb from the terminal:

adb shell am start -W -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "googlechrome://navigate?url=www.xkcd.org"

Perhaps you could try using <a href="googlechrome://navigate?url=test.webrtc.org">? I'm not sure what S Browser's behaviour is here, so maybe when following a link they don't consider resolving it through the Android Intent system. Does it work from another browser (not S Browser)?
Could you do likely do:

intent://view<...>;package=<chrome's package>

Details:
https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/intents

The intent:// syntax should likely work.

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