src.next: Kiwi currently can't Open tabs in External Applications

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Right now to open links in an external application you need to find the link and long press and then select Open in External Application, but this leaves out situations where I open a tab and I want to switch to the native app e.g. I want to open a Youtube video in it’s app. Right now Samsung Internet is the only browser I know of that actually has this feature.

Describe the solution you’d like

A possible solution is too add Open in external application as a share option in Kiwi’s share sheet, this would allow you to easily share tabs to their respective apps.

Describe alternatives you’ve considered

Or Kiwi could go the Samsung Internet route and add an icon in the top right (the icon would that of the external app that support the current tabs url) when there is an App that supports opening that specific tab is installed on the phone, if there are multiple apps that support the tab, Kiwi would instead show a different icon.

Screenshot_20210805-010352_Samsung Internet Beta_LI Open 1 App Externally

Screenshot_20210805-010915_Samsung Internet Beta_LI Open Multiple Apps Externally

Additional context

This is seems similar to, but distinctly different from #243

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 3 years ago
  • Comments: 18

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No, it’s different because Kiwi currently doesn’t support opening tabs in an external app, right now Kiwi only supports opening links in external apps which isn’t very useful if you already have the tab open, e.g. opening Youtube videos in the app, Samsung Internet supports this but Kiwi doesn’t