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BarbaAlGhul
BarbaAlGhul

Reputation: 145

Android App Links not working, is it because of Annotations?

I'm new to Android, still learning it, and I have a project that uses AndroidAnnotations, and want to implement App Links.

I read the documentation (here) and even read some questions here on Stackoverflow.

Following the documentation, the intent-filter inside the Manifest is:

<intent-filter android:autoVerify="true">
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <action android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <action android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
            <data android:scheme="http" android:host="real.host.here" />
            <data android:scheme="https" android:host="real.host.here" />
</intent-filter>

The intent is inside an activity, and the only thing different from all the examples I found is that my activity is like this:

<activity
    android:name=".activities.MainActivity_" ...>
    <intent-filter...>...</intent-filter>
</activity>

Because of AndroidAnnotations, the name is ".MainActivity_", not "MainActivity".

Beside that, the hosted assetlinks.json is accessible by HTTPS connection, here is my file:

[{
  "relation": ["delegate_permission/common.handle_all_urls"],
  "target": {
    "namespace": "android_app",
    "package_name": "com.my.package.name",
    "sha256_cert_fingerprints":["32:D9:9E:17:2E:C7:B4:82:12:96:C8:3E:D1:51:56:3F:7C:ED:97:69:F9:4A:39:54:4C:7B:AD:8A:AD:27:8F:45"]
  }
}]

The SHA256 fingerprints is from the certificate I use to build the release version of the app.

I already tested with the Statement List Generator and Tester tool and the result is a success.

And just to be sure, I always test with the signed apk and the phone I'm testing it is an Android 6.0.

When I confirm the digital asset link files with this

https://digitalassetlinks.googleapis.com/v1/statements:list?
source.web.site=https://<domain1>:<port>&
relation=delegate_permission/common.handle_all_urls

I get this message:

... "debugString": "********************* ERRORS *********************\nNone!\ ...

But when I try this command

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW \
-c android.intent.category.BROWSABLE \
-d "http://<domain1>:<port>"

It opens the browser, not the app.

I really would like to know what could be wrong here.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2792

Answers (1)

BarbaAlGhul
BarbaAlGhul

Reputation: 145

I found my own problem.

First I found that inside the intent-filter,

<action android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<action android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />

should be

<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />

But even after that, it wasn't working. So I found the real problem.

See here:

<data android:scheme="http" android:host="real.host.here" />
<data android:scheme="https" android:host="real.host.here" />

The problem was, my host provides only an HTTPS protocol, there is no HTTP for my website. After I remove the "http" data line, it worked like a charm. There is no problem using the AndroidAnnotations.

Upvotes: 3

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