为Android应用启用深层链接

Question

Recently I built an Android app that consume data through JSON from a back-end. There is no public/front zone, it's only back-end. Moreover I built a showcase-website just to let people know the app exists. Back-end and Showcase-Webiste reside at two different URLs. In the developer console I enabled the app indexing and the showcase-website is the one I set.

I'd like to add deep linking but I can't figure out how to configure the intent-filter.

For example, suppose my showcase-website URL is this: http://nolimitsworld.com/

How should I configure the data section of the intent-filter? the host parameter should be?

Answer 1

The question in your subject line is misleading. You do have a public web site, and that's your showcase web site. Use that showcase web site for your intent filter. The backend url only gets called from your android app anyway, so no one needs to know that one but you.

If you still need help figuring it out, please remove the api url from your question, and just show us the url to your showcase web site instead (and only register that one with google).

Now if your other concern is that you wish to index your application without going through any web site at all since most people wouldn't recognize the domain name of your web site anyway, then there is actually no need to do deeping linking and app indexing through google.

You could just get away with indexing the content of your app with a search provider and launching your app with an explicit intent. Google doesn't even need to get involved if you do that.