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external_app_launcher

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A Flutter plugin which helps you to open another app from your app

Last release 2 months ago
28 Jul 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 2 weeks to 1.5 years
Nearly every release is documented
notes for 11 of 11 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
6 years old
11 releases · first in 2020

Release timeline

11 releases since 2020

2020202120222023202420252026

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Releases

4.0.428 Jul 2026
Fix (#51): Removed legacy Registrar reference on Android; plugin now uses the v2 embedding API, resolving build failure "cannot find symbol: class Reg
Fix (#51): Removed legacy Registrar reference on Android; plugin now uses the v2 embedding API, resolving build failure "cannot find symbol: class Registrar".

Fix (#56): Resolved missing symbol linker errors that caused a crash on iOS 15.3; build now succeeds on iOS 13+.

Fix (#31): Resolved MissingPluginException on the launch_vpn method channel; plugin registers correctly on both Android and iOS.

Fix (#43): Removed NSLog debug statements ("Is reaching here1/2") from the iOS native layer.

Fix (#22): Replaced the opaque "something went wrong" error with descriptive return values ("App is installed but has no launch activity", "App is not installed and store redirect is disabled").

Fix (#36): Added Huawei AppGallery support on Android; devices with HMS but no GMS are now redirected to AppGallery (appmarket://details?id=…) instead of Google Play.

Feat (#24): Added LaunchApp.openSafari(url:) helper to open a URL directly in Safari on iOS.

Feat (#23): Added LaunchApp.openUrlInBrowser() and LaunchApp.openUrlInChrome() APIs to open a URL in a specific browser on Android/iOS, with automatic fallback to the system default browser if the target browser is not installed.

Fix (#34): Added <queries> intent declaration in the plugin AndroidManifest.xml so that isAppInstalled() reliably detects third-party packages (e.g. Zoom) on Android 11+ without requiring apps to declare QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES.

Fix (#8): openApp() and openUrlInBrowser() now catch SecurityException and return a descriptive message instead of crashing when called from a background context on Android 10+.

Fix (iOS docs, #27): Documented that iOS requires a registered custom URL scheme; attempting to launch an app via bundle ID alone is not supported due to iOS sandboxing.
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