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tuxGurl
tuxGurl

Reputation: 729

Intent Filter to Launch My Activity when custom URI is clicked

I am trying to allow a URI to be registered to open up with my app. Like the PatternRepository on the Blackberry and the CFBundleURLName/CFBundleURLSchemes on the iPhone. How do I achieve the same results on the Android?

The system will be sending emails with the following link: myapp://myapp.mycompany.com/index/customerId/12345. The idea is that the user should be able to click on the link to open up the customer activity in the application.

I've tried numerous suggestions from other SO posts but I cannot get the OS to recognize the pattern and open my app.

On The Gmail app it looks like this: myapp://myapp.mycompany.com/index/customerId/12345. It recognizes and underlines the myapp.mycompany.com/index/customerId/12345 portion of the link and it opens it in a browser. The myapp:// part is not linkified.

The standard mail application treats the entire link as plain text.

What am I missing here?

PS: I've already looked at How to implement my very own URI scheme on Android and How to register some URL namespace (myapp://app.start/) for accessing your program by calling a URL in browser in Android OS?

The Manifest: 

<manifest
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:versionCode="2"
    android:versionName="0.0.8" 
    package="com.mycompany.myapp.client.android">

    <uses-sdk 
        android:minSdkVersion="7" 
        android:targetSdkVersion="7"/>

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE"/>

    <application 
        android:label="@string/app_name" 
        android:name="myappApplication" 
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_icon_myapp" 
        android:debuggable="true">

        <activity 
            android:label="My App" 
            android:name=".gui.activity.LoginActivity" 
            label="@string/app_name">

            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>

        </activity>

        <activity android:name=".gui.activity.CustomerDetailActivity" > 
            <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> 
        </activity>

        <activity android:name=".gui.activity.CustomerDetailActivity"/>
        <activity android:name=".gui.activity.CustomerImageViewerActivity" />
        <activity android:name=".gui.activity.CustomerListActivity" android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"/>
        <activity android:name=".gui.activity.HomeActivity" android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"/>
        <activity android:name=".gui.activity.AboutActivity" android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"/>
        <activity android:name=".gui.activity.AccountActivity" android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden" />  
    </application>
</manifest>

Upvotes: 24

Views: 45142

Answers (7)

tuxGurl
tuxGurl

Reputation: 729

The final solution was a hacky workaround to cover all bases. The email now also contains an attachment with an extension that is registered to open with the app.

AndroidManifest.xml :

    <activity android:name=".gui.activity.CustomerDetailActivity" > 
        <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="https"
                 android:host="myapp.mycompany.com" /> 
        </intent-filter> 

        <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"
                 android:host="myapp.mycompany.com" /> 
        </intent-filter>

        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.EDIT" />
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.PICK" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
            <data android:mimeType="application/myapp" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

Upvotes: 13

emily
emily

Reputation: 11

This is solution for me. Thanks @DanO 

<intent-filter>
        <data android:scheme="yourcustomname"/>
        <data android:host="*"/>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
  </intent-filter>

Upvotes: 1

dangVarmit
dangVarmit

Reputation: 5661

I just ran into this also, but for standard http: scheme urls. Gmail doesn't appear to add any categories to the Intent. Now I check for BROWSABLE, but I also include a check for !intent.hasCategories() and allow that to go through as well.

Upvotes: 0

Michael Nutt
Michael Nutt

Reputation: 178

You can get around the issue of GMail not linking non-standard protocols by using a standard HTTP URL with a 302 redirect. You could either set it up on your website's webserver or application server, or for the quick and dirty test you could use a URL shortener like http://bit.ly.

Upvotes: 4

DanO
DanO

Reputation: 10270

You could always try sending your emails using HTML and then use an <a> tag around to create the URL. I don't think there is a way to change the way the Gmail or Mail parse their text, since they probably use the Linkify class.

Another option would be use use http:// and then just parse for a specific custom subdomain which would provide your users with the option to open in a browser or your application.

Upvotes: 0

BigFwoosh
BigFwoosh

Reputation: 1197

When I was working on OAuth with Google Calendar, I had to add this filter to the Activity I wanted to receive the callback:

<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"></action>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"></category>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE"></category>
<data android:scheme="yourapp" android:host="goog"></data>
</intent-filter>

The when the browser invoked the yourapp://goog URL, it would return to my Activity.

Upvotes: 6

azharb
azharb

Reputation: 1009

Have you dried adding a category to your intent-filter:

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

Upvotes: 0

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