android自定义方案和chrome intent

Question

I have a cross platform app developed in Xamarin. In the iOS version I use a custom url scheme to load a specific web page in a web view, such as

myapp://?returnUrl=http:/google.com.au

As a customer has few other applications from us, he wants to keep the custom scheme in the same format. In the android I found that such intent can be opened from Firefox, but not form email or Chrome. I found that Chrome needs a custom intent to make it work . I tried to implement that but couldn't make it work.

Here is my manifest implementation:

[Activity(Label = "MyApp",
    MainLauncher = true,
    LaunchMode = LaunchMode.SingleTask,
    ConfigurationChanges = ConfigChanges.Orientation | ConfigChanges.ScreenSize)]
[IntentFilter(new[] { Intent.ActionView },
    Categories = new[] { Intent.CategoryDefault, Intent.CategoryBrowsable },
    DataScheme = "myapp")]

wich will create a following manifest file:

<activity android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize" android:label="MyApp" android:launchMode="singleTask" android:name="myapp.auth.droid.MainActivity">
  <intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
  </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" />
  </intent-filter>
</activity>

I tried to capture an intent from Firefox and convert it to URI in the application, but following intent is not working from Chrome (it works from Firefox BTW):

myapp://?returnUrl=http:/google.com.au#Intent;action=android.intent.action.VIEW;launchFlags=0x4400000;component=MyApp.MyApp/myapp.auth.droid.MainActivity;end

Am I missing something?

NOTE . http:// scheme can be used but it is not a preferred option.

NOTE 2 . I use Nexus 5, Android 4.4.4

Answer 1

for chrome, you need to use the chrome intent, the old way is no longer supported in the after version 18

The intent should look like something in this format

intent://some_optional_data#Intent;scheme=app_scheme;package=package_name;end

check out this site for more detail information: Android Intents with Chrome

This method would also fall back to google play as well