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Blackbird
Blackbird

Reputation: 37

Cordova: Launch App via Click on Website-Link

I'm very new to the app-development and recently tried to develop an Android-App using Cordova. I got stuck at the following problem:

The user needs to sign up, recieves a Mail which he should use to "activate" the Account by opening a link. As far as I know, there is a way to open specific links in an app instead of the webbrowswer, isn't it? - So I'd like the activation-link in the E-Mail to be opened with my cordova-app instead of the webbrowser. Is this possible?

If it isn't possible, maybe I can do it like this: The user clicks the link and gets redirected to the website which has a Button like "Open the app now", that actually just opens the cordova app.

Thanks for any help!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1843

Answers (1)

Tushar Tyagi
Tushar Tyagi

Reputation: 327

There is a custom url scheme plugin for that. to install type:

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-customurlscheme --variable URL_SCHEME=mycordovaapp

replace 'mycordovaapp' to something that matches your app and contains no space.

now create a link on your website 

<a href="mycordovaapp://">Open app now</a>

Also refer to docs

I just found out with this plugin and InAppBrowser you can launch your cordova app from another cordova app by-

<button onclick="window.open('mycordovaapp://', '_system')">Open the other app</button>

Upvotes: 2

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