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Chrome Custom Tabs
Chrome custom tabs give apps more control over their web experience, and make transitions between native and web content more seamless without having to resort to a WebView.
Chrome custom tabs allow an app to customize how Chrome looks and feels. An app can change things like:
- Toolbar color
- Enter and exit animations
- Add custom actions to the Chrome toolbar and overflow menu
Chrome custom tabs also allow the developer to pre-start Chrome and pre-fetch content for faster loading.
- Add the Android Support Library for Chrome Custom Tabs as a dependency to your gradle build file:
compile 'com.android.support:customtabs:23.0.0+'The library only works on API 16 (Jelly Bean) an above. If you are supporting previous API, you can add
<uses-sdk tools:overrideLibrary="android.support.customtabs"/>to your manifest to force its use and check the API version at runtime and just use Chrome Custom tabs if its >= 16
- Copy the following files from
GoogleChromesample git repo to your project and adjust the package names accordingly:
- Use the following method to open a Chrome Custom Tab if possible. If the user doesn't have a browser that supports Chrome Custom Tabs, it will open the default browser:
CustomTabsIntent customTabsIntent = new CustomTabsIntent.Builder().build();
CustomTabActivityHelper.openCustomTab(this, customTabsIntent, uri,
new CustomTabActivityHelper.CustomTabFallback() {
@Override
public void openUri(Activity activity, Uri uri) {
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);
startActivity(intent);
}
});The above quick integration example will open your Uri on a Chrome Custom Tab without warming up, pre-fetching or UI customizations.
You can find an example on how to connect to the Chrome Custom Tabs service to use warm-up and pre-fetching on the ServiceConnectionActivity sample from the Google Chrome Team.
For more information on possible UI customizations, check the CustomUIActivity sample from the Google Chrome Team.
Created by CodePath with much help from the community.