Force Uber app to launch when requesting Uber ride within Google maps? I am a fan of integrating ridesharing (Uber and Lyft) fare results into the travel directions interface of Google Maps, so that I may quickly compare the two companies to each other and to other forms of transportation.  However, I do not like having the entire Uber ride take place within Google maps.  I find the interface inferior to Uber's app (lots of info/options are missing), and I would prefer that the Maps app is available for other searches while riding in the Uber (e.g., looking up the exact location of a restaurant).

Is there any way to force Maps to launch the Uber app from within these search results?  

The alternative is to 


highlight the address
select "copy", 
return to the desktop, 
launch the Uber app, 
clear out any Uber messages (e.g., rate your last driver), 
paste the address into the Uber search (which doesn't work if you used something like "home" in Maps), 
confirm that it's the same location on the maps you already found in Google (which might not be the case for overloaded place names), 
confirm your current location, 
and hit the "book"/"request" button.


Do-able, but inefficient.
You could just use the Uber app to use Uber rather than using Google maps.