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gardenapple
gardenapple

Reputation: 195

Android asks me which app to use every time, even after I've set my app as the default. Why?

My app has an activity for opening YouTube links, with intent filters which I've copied from NewPipe. It works fine: when I click on a YouTube link, Android asks me which app to use, and my application appears in the list. The problem is, it asks me this every time, even after I go to the settings and select "Open in this app".

NewPipe works as expected: after choosing "Open in this app", it's used to open YouTube links every time, without asking.

Here's the AndroidManifest portion for my activity, copied from here:


        <activity android:name=".MainActivity">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

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

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

                <data android:mimeType="text/plain" />
            </intent-filter>
            <!-- Youtube filter, copied from NewPipe -->
            <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" />
                <data android:scheme="https" />
                <data android:host="youtube.com" />
                <data android:host="m.youtube.com" />
                <data android:host="www.youtube.com" />
                <data android:host="music.youtube.com" />
                <!-- video prefix -->
                <data android:pathPrefix="/v/" />
                <data android:pathPrefix="/embed/" />
                <data android:pathPrefix="/watch" />
                <data android:pathPrefix="/attribution_link" />
                <!-- channel prefix -->
                <data android:pathPrefix="/channel/" />
                <data android:pathPrefix="/user/" />
                <data android:pathPrefix="/c/" />
            </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="http" />
                <data android:scheme="https" />
                <data android:host="youtu.be" />
                <data android:pathPrefix="/" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 428

Answers (1)

gardenapple
gardenapple

Reputation: 195

I haven't done any tests to conclusively answer this, but I think in my case this was because my app didn't have a "main activity". I've added a proper activity with categories LAUNCHER and DEFAULT and now the app behaves as I expect.

This could be a security feature, to prevent "hidden" apps from hijacking somebody's intents.

Upvotes: 1

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