28

i have tried link1, link2,link3, link4, link5, link6

Here's everything described about DeepLinking

What i want is the custom uri myapp://some_data, opens the native application installed in the device that requires some_data to initialise the application.

There are 2 scenarios in which the custom url can be clicked.

1) from within the SMS app, when user taps the link it should automatically open the installed otherwise open the googleplay store where the app is hosted

2) from within the body of a email message.

I have tried all the above listed links, but none of them works for me. I m having major problem with the scheme part.

Here's my AndroidManifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 

<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" android:targetSdkVersion="18" /> <application android:allowBackup="true" android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher" android:label="@string/app_name" android:theme="@style/AppTheme" > <activity android:name="MainActivity" android:label="@string/app_name" android:exported="true" > <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" /> <data android:scheme="inderbagga" /> </intent-filter> </activity> </application>

and here's the MainActivity.java

TextView tvText=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.tvid); if (getIntent().getAction() == Intent.ACTION_VIEW&&getIntent().getScheme().equals("inderbagga")) { Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), ""+getIntent().getScheme(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); Uri uri = getIntent().getData(); // do stuff with uri tvText.setText(uri.toString()); } else tvText.setText("NULL");

To be more specific, i want to open the native application when u url of type inderbagga://a1b22c333 is clicked, Either from sms application or gmail/yahoomail email message body.

in order to achieve the same, i 've used intent filters to set the scheme. and getIntent() to read the data that equals to a1b22c333 in the MainActivity.

Improve this question
7
  • "none of them works for me" -- this is not very useful. "i'm having problem with the scheme part" -- this is also not very useful. Please edit your question to explain, in deatil, what specific problems you are encountering. Commented Nov 25, 2013 at 12:58
  • you want open app while typing url into a browser is it correct? Commented Nov 25, 2013 at 12:59
  • 1
    @prakash : i want to open the app from email message body say a gmail native app or gmail web app running in the browser. the second case may be, the app can also be started via tapping on the link within the SMS application. Commented Nov 25, 2013 at 13:18
  • @indeerbagga... Did you resolved your problem ?? ..Please guide me, i want also to implement these functionality...thank you Commented Nov 27, 2015 at 10:06
  • 1
    i had used http scheme, it gives an user the option to open the link either via browser or your application implementing the scheme. Commented Nov 30, 2015 at 6:41

5 Answers 5

Reset to default
17

click link means this code will work

 <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="http" android:host="domain.com(google.com)"android:pathPrefix="/wp/poc1/(sufexes)" /> </intent-filter>

get url data

 //get uri data Uri data = getIntent().getData(); //get schma String scheme = data.getScheme(); // "http" //get server name String host = data.getHost(); // Ipaddress or domain name //get parameter String urltextboxname=data.getQueryParameter("name"); //set value in textview name.setText(urltextboxname);
Improve this answer
Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

2 Comments

this block of code won't work, i need a custom scheme ... not the http stuff.
Only now I saw your answer, but the "scheme" can be custom, you can define what best suits you. But I guess you might have found out that after 2 years :)
12

To be more specific, i want to open the native application when u url of type inderbagga://a1b22c333 is clicked, Either from sms application or gmail/yahoomail email message body.

There are many SMS and email applications available for Android. Precisely none of them know to convert inderbagga://a1b22c333 into clickable entries. You could build a list of all of those apps, contact each of their development teams, and ask them to add it.

Or, you could have your app watch for a particular http:// URL instead. While the user would be presented with a chooser, to view that URL within your app or a Web browser, at least it will be clickable.

Improve this answer

13 Comments

plesae have a look at this link , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_deep_linking facebook, twitter, ebay,youtube is already doinf this. inderbagga is nothing but a custom scheme value, i've seen in the links i've mentioned that people are already using custom schemes like <data android:scheme="inderbagga" />
this is another supporting tutorial sir sparq.it/web/api/v1/docs/mobile_uris#deep_linking and deeplink.me/documentation . there must be a way to achieve this. but itsn't working in my case..i'm doing it wrong. that might be the case !
@inderbagga: Yes. Any SMS or email app that supports linking to http or https URLs will know to convert your http URL into a link as well. The app then blindly asks Android to process the link, which will display the chooser (your app, or the browser?). Ideally, use a URL that is a live page on a Web server you control, so you can have that page provide instructions to the user to download the app or choose you from the chooser.
@CommonsWare : it's all working fine, sir ! what if application is already installed and i want to bypass the chooser option to select the application by default instead od asking for whether to open via browser or application ?
@inderbagga: You cannot control that. The user can, if they have an option in the chooser for "Always" or "Make Default" or the equivalent.
|
3

You might also want to try out this library which facilitates declaring deep links and extracting out the parameters you need:

https://github.com/airbnb/DeepLinkDispatch

It allows you to declare the URI you're interested in and the parameter you'd like to extract through annotations, without having to do the parsing yourself.

Improve this answer

Comments

3

Few things I have understood based on my knowledge and after reading all the answers and comments.

Implementing Deep Link

The OP's AndroidManifest.xml implementation is correct. Adding <data android:scheme="inderbagga" /> will add deeplink for all URLs starting with "inderbagga". So inderbagga://something.com will work.

Testing Deep link

Instead of testing your implementation by tapping links on SMS app try to follow this ADB command mentioned on Android Deeplink documentation.

$ adb shell am start -W -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d <URI> <PACKAGE>

Why testing link on Browser/SMS might not work?

Based on my experience most chat apps (including WhatsApp) won't convert custom schemed URL into tappable links. Also sending custom schemed URLs on Gmail won't work. Plus, entering inderbagga://something.com on Google Chrome (Android) will do a Google search instead of sending an intent to your app.

What works then?

  • Test your implementation using ADB cmd (link)
  • Create a HTML webpage <a href="YOURSCHEME://something.com/" target="_blank">. Try this w3school code snippet if you like (link)
Improve this answer

Comments

2

It looks like the problem you are having is that your email and SMS client are not parsing the URI scheme and path correctly. Most do not allow you to enter in a URI scheme directly. Additionally, if the app is not installed, you need to fallback to the Play Store so the user is given a good experience.

In order to do this, you need to call the URI scheme in client side JS. You can setup a simple web host and use this script:

<script type="text/javascript"> window.onload = function() { var method = 'iframe'; var fallbackFunction = function() { if (method == 'iframe') { window.location = "market://details?id=your.package.name"; } }; var addIFrame = function() { var iframe = document.createElement("iframe"); iframe.style.border = "none"; iframe.style.width = "1px"; iframe.style.height = "1px"; iframe.src = "inderbagga://a1b22c333"; document.body.appendChild(iframe); }; var loadChromeIntent = function() { method = 'intent'; document.location = "intent://a1b22c333#Intent;scheme= inderbagga;package=your.package.name;end"; }; if (navigator.userAgent.match(/Chrome/) && !navigator.userAgent.match("Version/")) { loadChromeIntent(); } else if (navigator.userAgent.match(/Firefox/)) { window.location = "inderbagga://a1b22c333"; } else { addIFrame(); } setTimeout(fallbackFunction, 750); }; </script>

Or, you can use a service like branch.io which automatically assembles this client side JS for you in addition to working on desktop and iOS as well.

Improve this answer

Comments

Start asking to get answers

Find the answer to your question by asking.

Ask question

Explore related questions

See similar questions with these tags.