As @urszula has pointed out, if an app supports WebView functionality, then a user can stay within the app but see that to which the URL navigates.
@kirkmahoneyphd There is a WebView that does open up. It’s not for browsing, but it does open up a page, if, for instance, you need to connect to airport WiFi (you know to check that you agree to terms & conditions etc.)
The app that you are using (Audire) supports the WebView functionality. (Notice the “WebView” label at the top of your second screenshot.) You are ‘browsing’ to that video within that app because of this.
Here is a description of WebView from official documentation :
WebView objects allow you to display web content as part of your activity layout, but lack some of the features of fully-developed browsers. A WebView is useful when you need increased control over the UI and advanced configuration options that will allow you to embed web pages in a specially-designed environment for your app.
Today is the first day that I have known that Kompakt will use WebView, and I am super-happy that Mudita …
@haleme , like I mentioned above:
WebView is not a full browser.
It’s a tool that apps can use to show limited web content inside the app itself.
If there is no dedicated browser installed, and no system-level handling for general links, WebView alone cannot just “open links” from anywhere like SMS messages.
In a traditional smartphone SMS app, when you tap a link, the system usually needs to hand off the link to a browser app because that’s the job of a full browser.
Kompakt’s SMS app does …
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