A Note on Permissions: Although your application is leveraging browser capabilities on the device, it is not required to have any such permissions. This is because the application is not directly displaying web content. Instead, it’s just leveraging other applications’ capabilities to do so.
Becoming a Browser
For more fine control over web content within your applications, you’ll want to use the WebView control. This special view allows fine control over rendering of web content. However, this control will require your application to have the appropriate permissions to do so, and that, friends, is discussed in a tutorial right here on Mobiletuts+!
Conclusion
In this quick tip you have learned how to configure an Intent to launch the Browser as well as perform a search query. This feature can be very useful for applications wishing to web content within their applications.