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Android 6 - cannot open app url from chrome

I had setup intent filter in manifest.xml, such as follows:
<activity
android:name="indexgifto.android.ui.viewcontrollers.SplashScreenActivity"
android:label="#string/application_name"
android:launchMode="singleTop"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustNothing"
android:theme="#android:style/Theme.Translucent.NoTitleBar"
android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
<intent-filter>
<data android:scheme="gifto"/>
<data android:scheme="http" />
<data android:host="www.gifto.net"/>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
When I execute 'am start http://www.gifto.net/go.php?c=xlh201' application successfully opens with required data. But, when same URL opened via Chrome, just server page opens. In the android 4 in both cases my app was able to start from this url. What I must fix in android 6?

Chrome for Android, versions 25 and later, you should implement a user gesture to launch the app via a custom scheme, or use the “intent:” syntax described in this article.
https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/intents

this worked for me you to try once if worked for u.
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"></action>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"></category>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"></category>
<data android:host="www.youtube.com" android:scheme="http" android:pathPrefix="http"></data>
</intent-filter>

Launch Android application from browser

I have a little problem.
I have an Android Activity, and I want to run it from one link on the browser.
This is what how I have declared my Activity on the Manifest file:
<activity android:name=".Wul4"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"
android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"
android:launchMode="singleInstance"
android:label="#string/app_name">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<data android:scheme="wul4" android:host="com.wul4.wul4"/>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
</intent-filter>
</activity>
On the webApp, the link to launch the application is the following one:
wul4://com.wul4.wul4?codOperacion="+respuestaActual.idOperacion
The point is that It is working from the following browsers: "Opera" and "Google Chrome", but it is not working for the rest..........(for instance, it is not working on the default browser of the phone).
Anyone knows why???
Thanks a lot!

Try this one, using HTTP instead of your own schema:
<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:host="com.wul4.wul4"
android:scheme="http:" />
</intent-filter>
When a link with this domain is clicked in an Android device, the user is presented with a dialog to choose between your App (if installed) or the Browser.

Link from Android browser to my application not working

I want from the android browser be able to launch my application if it's installed, or launch my website in the other case.
So in order to make it work, I put :
<activity android:name=".MMLogin" android:label="MeetMe" android:theme="#android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" android:screenOrientation="portrait">
<intent-filter>
<data android:scheme="http" android:host="meet-me.com" android:path="/signin" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"/>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
in the Manifest, and I created a dummy link to test; and it's not working.
I've tried with and without: BROWSABLE and DEFAULT
I've tried with meetme://datas and change the scheme; nothing worked.
I used threads on stackoverflow like :
Launch custom android application from android browser
What am I doing wrong, or is there a special thing to do to make it work ?
My application suppports from API 7.
Cheers

I used :
Intent Filter to Launch My Activity when custom URI is clicked, I think what was missing is this block :
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.EDIT" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.PICK" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<data android:mimeType="application/myapp" />
</intent-filter>

Could not launch application by calling a URL from Android Browser

There are many answers in stackoverflow showing how to lauch app from a web browser ,but I am not sure what went wrong with my code, that never seems to be doing the intended.
I am trying to launch my app by a URL from any other app like web browser,initially
my manifest file looks like this
<activity android:name=".Main">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
<intent-filter>
<data android:scheme="http" android:host="ebay.com" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
</intent-filter>
And When I typed http://ebay.com in the browser that never started my app.Obviously,how does the browser know about my app?,then i tried the other way around and added another Activity called MyActivity and altered the manifest file as
<activity android:name=".Main">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity android:name=".MyActivity">
<intent-filter>
<data android:scheme="http" android:host="ebay.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>
and tried in my Main Activity
startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,Uri.parse("http://mycityway.com")));
Thus producing the intended result.I can also start another application Activity using this method.
But most of the answers here says that the later is possible.What is the mistake i am doing,I couldn't launch my app from browser.Please guide me.

And When I typed http://ebay.com in the browser that never started my
app.
It gets started when a matching link is clicked not when you type the url in the browser.
Try it by sending yourself an email containing http://ebay.com and click the link in the email application.

Intent Filter to Launch My Activity when custom URI is clicked

I am trying to allow a URI to be registered to open up with my app. Like the PatternRepository on the Blackberry and the CFBundleURLName/CFBundleURLSchemes on the iPhone. How do I achieve the same results on the Android?
The system will be sending emails with the following link: myapp://myapp.mycompany.com/index/customerId/12345. The idea is that the user should be able to click on the link to open up the customer activity in the application.
I've tried numerous suggestions from other SO posts but I cannot get the OS to recognize the pattern and open my app.
On The Gmail app it looks like this: myapp://myapp.mycompany.com/index/customerId/12345. It recognizes and underlines the myapp.mycompany.com/index/customerId/12345 portion of the link and it opens it in a browser. The myapp:// part is not linkified.
The standard mail application treats the entire link as plain text.
What am I missing here?
PS: I've already looked at
How to implement my very own URI scheme on Android
and How to register some URL namespace (myapp://app.start/) for accessing your program by calling a URL in browser in Android OS?
The Manifest:
<manifest
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:versionCode="2"
android:versionName="0.0.8"
package="com.mycompany.myapp.client.android">
<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="7"
android:targetSdkVersion="7"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE"/>
<application
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:name="myappApplication"
android:icon="#drawable/ic_icon_myapp"
android:debuggable="true">
<activity
android:label="My App"
android:name=".gui.activity.LoginActivity"
label="#string/app_name">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity android:name=".gui.activity.CustomerDetailActivity" >
<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="myapp"/>
</intent-filter>
</activity>
<activity android:name=".gui.activity.CustomerDetailActivity"/>
<activity android:name=".gui.activity.CustomerImageViewerActivity" />
<activity android:name=".gui.activity.CustomerListActivity" android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"/>
<activity android:name=".gui.activity.HomeActivity" android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"/>
<activity android:name=".gui.activity.AboutActivity" android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"/>
<activity android:name=".gui.activity.AccountActivity" android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden" />
</application>
</manifest>

The final solution was a hacky workaround to cover all bases. The email now also contains an attachment with an extension that is registered to open with the app.
AndroidManifest.xml :
<activity android:name=".gui.activity.CustomerDetailActivity" >
<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.mycompany.com" />
</intent-filter>
<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="myapp"
android:host="myapp.mycompany.com" />
</intent-filter>
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.EDIT" />
<action android:name="android.intent.action.PICK" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<data android:mimeType="application/myapp" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>

When I was working on OAuth with Google Calendar, I had to add this filter to the Activity I wanted to receive the callback:
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"></action>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"></category>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"></category>
<data android:scheme="yourapp" android:host="goog"></data>
</intent-filter>
The when the browser invoked the yourapp://goog URL, it would return to my Activity.

You can get around the issue of GMail not linking non-standard protocols by using a standard HTTP URL with a 302 redirect. You could either set it up on your website's webserver or application server, or for the quick and dirty test you could use a URL shortener like http://bit.ly.

This is solution for me. Thanks #DanO
<intent-filter>
<data android:scheme="yourcustomname"/>
<data android:host="*"/>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
</intent-filter>

Have you dried adding a category to your intent-filter:
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />

You could always try sending your emails using HTML and then use an <a> tag around to create the URL. I don't think there is a way to change the way the Gmail or Mail parse their text, since they probably use the Linkify class.
Another option would be use use http:// and then just parse for a specific custom subdomain which would provide your users with the option to open in a browser or your application.

I just ran into this also, but for standard http: scheme urls. Gmail doesn't appear to add any categories to the Intent. Now I check for BROWSABLE, but I also include a check for !intent.hasCategories() and allow that to go through as well.