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Android Matrix messenger application using the Matrix Rust Sdk and Jetpack Compose
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Links open in in-app browser #3885

Open richvdh opened 3 hours ago

richvdh commented 3 hours ago

Steps to reproduce

Click on a link in the chat

Outcome

What did you expect?

Link opens in external browser

What happened instead?

Link opens in some sort of in-app web view. This is okayyyyy (if ugly), but the real problem is that there is no way to keep the web view open if I want to go back to chatting.

Your phone model

Samsung S22

Operating system version

Android 14

Application version and app store

0.7.3-nithgly 666cedd6

Homeserver

No response

Will you send logs?

No

Are you willing to provide a PR?

No

jmartinesp commented 2 hours ago

We can probably add some option to use an external browser instead (lots of apps have this), but you should be able to open the link in the actual web browser without it, like this:

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