diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 90491ad..fc62925 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1469,7 +1469,9 @@ dependencies = [
  "dr-sync-nextcloud",
  "dr-thumbs",
  "dr-types",
+ "jni 0.22.4",
  "log",
+ "ndk-context",
  "pollster",
  "reqwest",
  "rusqlite",
diff --git a/ui/dr-ui/Cargo.toml b/ui/dr-ui/Cargo.toml
index 59ce4ed..424480f 100644
--- a/ui/dr-ui/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ui/dr-ui/Cargo.toml
@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ slint = { workspace = true, features = ["backend-winit"] }
 
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "android")'.dependencies]
 slint = { workspace = true, features = ["backend-android-activity-06"] }
+# Opening the sign-in URL needs an ACTION_VIEW Intent — Android has no
+# xdg-open. Version-matched to Slint's Android backend so both halves of the
+# process agree on the JavaVM types; ndk-context supplies the VM and activity
+# that android-activity's glue already stashed.
+jni = "0.22"
+ndk-context = "0.1"
 
 [build-dependencies]
 slint-build.workspace = true
diff --git a/ui/dr-ui/src/launch_ui.rs b/ui/dr-ui/src/launch_ui.rs
index 8201ec7..91bc959 100644
--- a/ui/dr-ui/src/launch_ui.rs
+++ b/ui/dr-ui/src/launch_ui.rs
@@ -553,7 +553,14 @@ fn open_in_browser(url: &str) -> std::io::Result<()> {
             .spawn()
             .map(|_| ())
     }
-    #[cfg(not(all(unix, not(target_os = "android"), not(target_os = "macos"))))]
+    #[cfg(target_os = "android")]
+    {
+        android_open_url(url).map_err(|e| std::io::Error::other(e))
+    }
+    #[cfg(not(any(
+        all(unix, not(target_os = "android"), not(target_os = "macos")),
+        target_os = "android"
+    )))]
     {
         let _ = url;
         Err(std::io::Error::new(
@@ -562,3 +569,76 @@ fn open_in_browser(url: &str) -> std::io::Result<()> {
         ))
     }
 }
+
+/// Hand a URL to whatever the user has set as their browser, via
+/// `startActivity(new Intent(ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url)))`.
+///
+/// Called from the login worker, which is a plain `std::thread` and therefore
+/// not known to the JVM — every JNI call from it would abort the process
+/// without `attach_current_thread` first. The thread detaches when the returned
+/// guard drops.
+///
+/// The VM and activity come from `ndk_context`, which android-activity's glue
+/// populates at startup; that is the same handle Slint's backend uses, so there
+/// is no second JavaVM to reconcile.
+#[cfg(target_os = "android")]
+fn android_open_url(url: &str) -> Result<(), String> {
+    let ctx = ndk_context::android_context();
+    if ctx.vm().is_null() || ctx.context().is_null() {
+        return Err("no Android context available".into());
+    }
+
+    // SAFETY: the pointer comes from ndk_context, which android-activity fills
+    // in with the process's real JavaVM before any Rust runs.
+    let vm = unsafe { jni::JavaVM::from_raw(ctx.vm().cast()) };
+    let raw_activity: jni::sys::jobject = ctx.context().cast();
+
+    // jni 0.22 scopes the attachment to a closure rather than handing back a
+    // guard, so all the JNI work happens in here and the thread is detached on
+    // the way out.
+    vm.attach_current_thread(|env| {
+        // SAFETY: valid for as long as this frame, which is all we need — the
+        // Intent is dispatched before the closure returns.
+        let activity = unsafe { jni::objects::JObject::from_raw(env, raw_activity) };
+
+        // Names go through `jni_str!` (UTF-8 literal to MUTF-8 `&'static
+        // JNIStr`) and signatures through `jni_sig!`, which parses and
+        // type-checks them at compile time — a typo in either is a build error
+        // rather than a NoSuchMethodError on the device.
+        let jurl = env.new_string(url)?;
+        let uri = env
+            .call_static_method(
+                jni::jni_str!("android/net/Uri"),
+                jni::jni_str!("parse"),
+                jni::jni_sig!("(Ljava/lang/String;)Landroid/net/Uri;"),
+                &[(&jurl).into()],
+            )?
+            .l()?;
+
+        let action = env.new_string("android.intent.action.VIEW")?;
+        let intent = env.new_object(
+            jni::jni_str!("android/content/Intent"),
+            jni::jni_sig!("(Ljava/lang/String;Landroid/net/Uri;)V"),
+            &[(&action).into(), (&uri).into()],
+        )?;
+
+        env.call_method(
+            &activity,
+            jni::jni_str!("startActivity"),
+            jni::jni_sig!("(Landroid/content/Intent;)V"),
+            &[(&intent).into()],
+        )?;
+
+        // A pending Java exception leaves the JVM unusable for the next call,
+        // and ActivityNotFoundException here means the device has no browser at
+        // all — worth reporting rather than leaving for something unrelated to
+        // trip over.
+        if env.exception_check() {
+            env.exception_clear();
+            return Err(jni::errors::Error::JavaException);
+        }
+
+        Ok(())
+    })
+    .map_err(|e: jni::errors::Error| e.to_string())
+}