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fweigl
fweigl

Reputation: 22038

Android Deep link going to PlayStore instead of my app on some devices

I've registered the following intent filter in my app's manifest: 

    <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="m.mycompany.de"
            android:pathPattern="/app/list"
            android:scheme="http" />
    </intent-filter>

And created a simple html page to test if the app opens correctly: 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML>
   <HEAD>
      <TITLE>
         A Small Hello 
      </TITLE>
   </HEAD>
<BODY>
   <a href = "http://m.mycompany.de/app/list?param1=178&param2=87294">Click</a>

</BODY>
</HTML>

On some devices (e.g. Nexus 5 running Android 5.1) clicking the link opens my app as expected, on other devices (e.g. Nexus 6 also running 5.1) the PlayStore (my app's page) is opened instead of my app.

Any ideas what the problem might be?

EDIT: Strangely, this 'bug' is gone when simplifying the URL to : 

http://m.mycompany.de/list?param1=178&param2=87294

and my intent filter to 

   <data
        android:host="m.mycompany.de"
        android:pathPattern="/app"
        android:scheme="http" />

which is not an option though because I don't have control over the URLs for my live app.

Upvotes: 27

Views: 5239

Answers (2)

Zilan Pattni
Zilan Pattni

Reputation: 236

You can use pathprefix instead of android:pathPattern

<data 
      android:host="m.mycompany.de"
      android:pathPrefix="/app/list"
      android:scheme="http" />

and in second case when you use below url,

http://m.mycompany.de/list?param1=178&param2=87294

the data tag should be

<data 
      android:host="m.mycompany.de"
      android:pathPrefix="/list"
      android:scheme="http" />

Upvotes: 4

comrade
comrade

Reputation: 4710

As I see, you use data section's pathPattern parameter in wrong direction.

According to Google docs:

The pathPattern attribute specifies a complete path that is matched against the complete path in the Intent object.

So you need to use pathPrefix instead of pathPattern:

The pathPrefix attribute specifies a partial path that is matched against only the initial part of the path in the Intent object.

Or just discard path and use only host and scheme like that:

<data
    android:host="m.mycompany.de"
    android:scheme="http" />

P.S. Additionally note Mimmo Grottoli comment for original message.

Upvotes: 0

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