Make LauncherActivity more extensible to support third-party integrations about android-browser-helper

[SayedElabady]

Hey, so if I understand this correctly you need a way to add extra parameters to the intent before restarting the app?

[SergeyPoznyakAkvelon]

@SayedElabady More like disable the default behavior of forwarding the intent to custom tabs activity if the app is already open. Because when it does that it doesn't let my custom activity to start and do its thing.

[SayedElabady]

@SergeyPoznyakAkvelon , We can add a method to let you add extra parameters to the intent before firing it, you can find a sample below. Please let me know if this will help you in resolving the issue or not.

private boolean restartInNewTask() {
        boolean hasNewTask = (getIntent().getFlags() & Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK) != 0;
        boolean hasNewDocument = (getIntent().getFlags() & Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_DOCUMENT) != 0;

        if (hasNewTask && !hasNewDocument) return false;

        //...

        Intent newIntent = new Intent(getIntent());

        int flags = getIntent().getFlags();
        flags |= Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK;
        flags &= ~Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_DOCUMENT;
        newIntent.setFlags(flags);
        modifyIntentForNewTask(newIntent);
        
        startActivity(newIntent);
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Override this method to add extra parameter to the intent before firing it when
     * restartNewTask is required.
     */
    public Intent modifyIntentForNewTask(Intent initialIntent){
        // Do the modification here as you want, for example
        //  if (shouldRestartBrowser()){
        //     add the extra parameters here, like:
        //     initialIntent.putExtra(INTENT_REFRESHED, true);
        //  }
        return initialIntent;
    }