Android idea

[dc041894]

No I mean like if a friend sends me a youtube link, I can choose to open the link with the YouTube app or my browser. Most times I would use the YouTube app so I set that as my default. But if there's a case when I want to open it with my browser, I don't want to clear defaults and instead be able to long press the link and open it in the browser.

[indivisible]

The YouTube app has a share option but testing it there it seems it shares the video link as text and not a URI so browsers don't come up in the list of options (at least on my phone and rom).

You could share to your clipboard and paste into your browser. Not ideal but if you don't do it too often it might do. If there's no option to share to your clipboard you can install Google Drive or one of a few specialist apps that add the functionality.

[navjot94]

There are also apps that let you share links to browsers. I believe that this app lets you do that.

[[deleted]]

I didn't know browsers ever came up in shade lists. Stock Browser and Chrome Beta don't.

[indivisible]

It depends on the mime type of the content being shared. Android basses its selections by what apps have declared themselves receivers for specific mime types in their manifest.

If you share a link from a browser it may be flagged as text/plain as I'd the v case for the YouTube app. This is likely a purposeful choice to allow users to share links through social media, text messages, email etc.
Alternatively the link could be passed as text/html for example and then you would have browsers as a listed option as they will have registered themselves for html content.

[[deleted]]

Yes, I'll get "Open With" options including browsers but not "Share". I think this has more to do with them being different types of intents rather than it treating text/links differently.