Wrapper android app for a mobile website that only runs on chrome for android

[Jean-Michel FAYARD]

Hello,

https://workflowy.com is a web app that allows to "organize your brain" by managing lists of all sort of things.

There is a mobile version of it that works fine in chrome for android, but is broken in various ways in the default browser.

To help the users of workflowy to go mobile, I developped an very simple android app that hopefully will be available on google play.

In MainActivity.onCreate(), it 

- check if chrome is already installed

- if not, display a notice to the user with a button that redirects to google play so that it can install chrome

- if yes, launch the workflowy.com mobile site an chrome

     Intent i = new Intent("android.intent.action.MAIN");

    i.setComponent(ComponentName.unflattenFromString("com.android.chrome/com.android.chrome.Main"));

    i.addCategory("android.intent.category.LAUNCHER");

    i.setData(Uri.parse("http://workflowy.com"));

One minor problem is that if my website is already opened in chrome, it will open in a new tab.

Is there a way to start an intent that will ask chrome to check if workflowy is already opened, and if yes open the existing tab ?

Thanks,

     Jean-Michel 

[Edison Nica]

could you do it in the web page code?

page 1 opened with a keep alive connection

when page 2 is opened, transfer the status to first page, auto close page 2, and refresh page 1

telling the browser to reset the current page seems a really bad practice, I really hope Android does not supports this scenario.

edi

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[Qi Di]

Hi, Jean

I think Crosswalk is what you are looking for, which is an web engine based on Chromium&&Blink.

Regards

-Di Qi

在 2013年2月8日星期五 UTC+8下午7:29:52，Jean-Michel FAYARD写道：