I have researched through most of the custom URL scheme Q&A and I have not found my possible answer.
I want my app to be launched by clicking a certain URL in the browser (any on the mobile device) , the thing is that my given URL cannot be modified as it serves IOS app as well and it looks like this:
"myapp://http://www.name.com/path/path2/"
I'm not sure how to handle "myapp://http://" and construct a proper intent filter , and everything i tried does not work. Any help will be appreciated , and if I missed a relevant answer please except my apology.
This is what I tried so far :
<activity
android:name="com.myapp.test.SplashScreen"
android:exported="true"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
<!-- Test for URL scheme -->
<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="www.name.com"
android:path="/path/path2/"
android:scheme="http" />
<data
android:host="www.name.com"
android:path="/path/path2/"
android:scheme="https" />
<data android:scheme="myapp" />
</intent-filter>
<!-- End Test for URL scheme -->
</activity>
Note: I have tried with/without the exported:true
As CommonsWare said the given URI upon I needed to create a Scheme is not a valid URI thus the scheme didn't not work and the application didn't launch. After this explanation the server side guys were convinced to change the URI to myapp://... and it worked like magic :).
The Activity looks like this now :
<activity
android:name="com.myapp.test.SplashScreen"
android:exported="true"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen" >
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
<!-- Test for URL scheme -->
<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>
<!-- End Test for URL scheme -->
</activity>