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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

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    Since that's not a valid Uri structure, I highly doubt that it will work. It will be simpler for you to change your iOS app to use something that is a valid URI. Commented Aug 7, 2013 at 11:57
  • @CommonsWare Hey, thanks for the comment. This kind of URI works on the IOS app , they manage to open the app by clicking on this link.Do you think that there could only be one scheme like "myapp://" OR "http://" ? Commented Aug 7, 2013 at 12:01
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    "Do you think that there could only be one scheme like "myapp://" OR "http://" ?" -- yes. At best, if you're lucky, http:// would be treated as the host. At worst, your Uri will simply fail to parse. And I can think of a few other options. There absolutely is only one scheme in a Uri -- the Uri class doesn't allow for more than one. Commented Aug 7, 2013 at 12:16
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    My read of RFC 2396 is that he has defined an opaque URI scheme, and the fact that the scheme-specific-part looks like another URI is no business of the URI parser. (Also, it's a little glib and unhelpful to suggest "just change your iOS app", likely he's got code in the wild he needs to maintain compatibility with.) Commented Dec 11, 2013 at 17:02

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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>
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It seems straight forward process, however, it doesn't work with me
@MazenKasser hey , how does your scheme look ? maybe I can help if you post it here
myapp:// navigating to app in default browser. but in chrome it is not opening the app.
@madanV where does chrome go to instead of opening the application ?
Important note: manually typing the urlscheme into the browser address bar and hitting enter to load it does not work. It DOES work if you CLICK a URL with that urlscheme!
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That's a misuse of the URI scheme and is invalid. The HTTP URL you want to pass is a piece of data and should thus be sent in the query string.

myapp://somehost/action?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.name.com%2Fpath%2Fpath2%2F
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He stated that his given URL cannot be modified as it serves IOS app as well
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you need use a hyperlink to start the app . for example ,you set scheme="yourpackagename" ,you need to set a hyperlink like this: yourpackagename://host ,and you should vist the hyperlink on you moble browser .If you do not have host lable,just remove it.

<!-- 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="host" android:scheme="yourpackagename" /> </intent-filter> <!-- End Test for URL scheme -->

If your activity has more than one scheme, you should use 2 or more to specify it

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android:host="" produces an error: "android:host cannot be empty"
thanks for your comment，in studio just remove this code // android:host="" if you do not need "host "

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