I have a activity that apply intent filter to open deeplink, this is my intent filter :
<intent-filter android:autoVerify="true">
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<data
android:host="www.example.com"
android:pathPattern="/..*"
android:scheme="https" />
</intent-filter>
my problem is, when user open a link i.e "www.example.com/somepage" from messaging apps e.g Hangout,Whatsapp, Android app chooser doesn't display may apps in its list, it just show all browser app in the options. But when user put "https://www.example.com/somepage" in a message then it works, Android show my app in its App chooser to open the link.
It also doesn't work When I try to remove android:scheme="https" from my intent filter.
is there anyone has same problem and have a solution?
Any help really appreciated.
This is expected behavior.
What the following snippet does is register your app as a handler for the URL scheme https://
<data
android:host="www.example.com"
android:pathPattern="/..*"
android:scheme="https" />
This means your app will be offered as an option for any link beginning with https:// and containing www.example.com. The string www.example.com/somepage doesn't qualify, as it is missing the https:// part.
You could try adding a second filter for http:// links. I'm not sure if Android automatically infers that as the scheme for web links without a scheme specified, so it's possible this could resolve the issue.
<intent-filter android:autoVerify="true">
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<data
android:host="www.example.com"
android:pathPattern="/..*"
android:scheme="https" />
<data
android:host="www.example.com"
android:pathPattern="/..*"
android:scheme="http" />
</intent-filter>
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I want to put deep linking with all the link looking like this :
https://myapp.com/*/*/quiz.html
How can I do that ? I try this intent-filter in my Manifest but the pathPrefix is not working :
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<data android:scheme="https"
android:host="myapp.com"
android:pathPrefix="/.*/.*/quiz\\.html"/>
</intent-filter>
Without the android:pathPrefix it's working but it's opening all the links from https://myapp.com.
You have to use android:pathPattern in your data element.
<data
android:host="myapp.com"
android:pathPattern="/.*/.*/quiz.html"
android:scheme="https" />
Then you can set any url pattern you want to open in your app. Read documentation . Also, here is good explanation about how it works.
In my android app code Manifest file contains following Intent filter for handling a Link in the app but doesn't work
<intent-filter android:autoVerify="true">
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<data
android:scheme="https"
android:host="safimoney.com"
android:pathPrefix="/.*/transactions/request-money/confirm/.*" />
</intent-filter>
test it with link generated from web "https://safimoney.com/en/transactions/request-money/confirm/0CnpXE7u5hXRD1JVcZM2APHcYElKZvBZs8GeqimJ" but it doesn't ask for an open link in the app.
If you want your app to open a link, use below code.
String url = "http://www.example.com";
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(i);
It will ask to select browser while opening this link.
You wanna do a Deep Link, right?
<intent-filter>
<data
android:host="open"
android:scheme="companyName" />
<data
android:host="companywebsite.com"
android:scheme="http" />
<data android:scheme="https" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
</intent-filter>
I would suggest for you take a look in Branch.io for link-app solutions.
But if you wanna make a webView inside your app this tutorial can help you.
This is one of the cases where developer.android website has everything that you need, even code examples. Just need to ready with a lot of attention. Hope it helps
EDIT
About your data, looking on android developer website, this should be the better way to set:
<data
android:scheme="https"
android:host="safimoney.com"
android:pathPrefix="/en/transactions/request-money/confirm/" />
But even after this you should add a data like this
<data android:scheme="safimoney"
android:host="/en/transactions/request-money/confirm/" />
I want to setup app linking for my app but only for it to be active on certain paths. In other words, in my manifest:
<intent-filter android:autoVerify="true">
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<data android:scheme="http" android:host="www.mydomain.com/[mypath]" />
<data android:scheme="https" android:host="www.mydomain.com/[mypath]" />
</intent-filter>
I don't want every url that has my domain to open the app - they can open in the browser as usual. I only want urls that include the specific subpath to open in the app. Is this pattern allowed or is it "all or nothing" for app linking?
Link to the developer docs:
http://developer.android.com/training/app-links/index.html
You can have special paths, but you can't/shouldn't have them appended to the host.
You should have
<data android:scheme="https" android:host="www.mydomain.com" />
And from there you can use the android:path android:pathPattern or android:pathPrefix to create special patterns.
For example,
<data android:scheme="https" android:host="www.google.com" android:path="/en/index.html"/>
would only catch the url "https://www.google.com/en/index.html"
How to make redirect my app without dialog (Choose Option) when user open custom url like this
https://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ThirdPartyAuthSuccessFailure&isAuthSeccesfull=true&ebaytkn=&tknexp=1233-4503223
I've tried to using intent filter in my android manifest like this
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<data
android:scheme="https"
android:host="signin.ebay.com" android:pathPattern="/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?/ThirdPartyAuthSuccessFailure&isAuthSuccessful=true*"/>
<data
android:scheme="http"
android:host="signin.ebay.com" android:pathPattern="/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?/ThirdPartyAuthSuccessFailure&isAuthSuccessful=true*"/>
</intent-filter>
but its not working , but when I've tried code like this
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<data
android:scheme="https"
android:host="signin.ebay.com" />
<data
android:scheme="http"
android:host="signin.ebay.com"/>
</intent-filter>
its working but it show dialog ChooseOption sometimes I open browser with url https://signin.ebay.com or http://signin.ebay.com
How to make when user open url this
https://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ThirdPartyAuthSuccessFailure&isAuthSeccesfull=true&ebaytkn=&tknexp=1233-4503223
they will redirect to my app WITHOUT dialog box ChooseOption , my tknexp is not static remember , thanks
It is asking to choose option because you have given android:scheme="https". Because of this Android will look for applications , which supports android:scheme="https" and will show user if there are multiple application taking care of thie scheme.
To Avoid it change the android:scheme="https" to android:scheme="<your own scheme>" which is handled by only you app. This will redirect directly to you application.
Now in your activities onCreate method you will receive the URL with instead of https://. But now you have total control on url , you can change it to https://.
This seems to be a typical problem and there seems to be a lot of differing behaviour, the problem I'm having though is that my scheme will launch the picker and allow me to choose my app when I hit a link in an email or a note on the device, but if I hit a link on a web page I can't seem to launch the app, don't even get the picker (I'v checked the "defaults" for the two browsers and none are set).
<activity
android:name=".MyActivity"
android:exported="true"
android:enabled="true">
<intent-filter>
<data android:scheme="http" android:host="www.website.com"/>
<data android:scheme="http" android:host="website.com"/>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
If I use one of my links from an email as below it gives me the chooser, launches my app, all is great, however, hitting the same link in the web browser just launches the page with no chooser. Any suggestions on what the problem might be?
http://www.website.com/share.aspx?id=12345678
Testing on GS2 running ICS 4.0.3 with Chrome and stock browsers.
Add the android:pathPrefix attribute.
<data android:scheme="http" android:host="website.com" android:pathPrefix="/" />
This is how I solved it eventually:
<intent-filter>
<data
android:host="www.website.com"
android:pathPattern=".*\\share.aspx"
android:scheme="http" />
<data
android:host="website.com"
android:pathPattern=".*\\share.aspx"
android:scheme="http" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
Also add the following to the Activity tag:
android:exported="true"
The reason there are two addresses is so that the app can pick up canonical domains (with/without www.).