使用自定义URL方案打开Android App

Question

this questions has been asked in a similar way like a hundred times, though I still cannot find a proper answer to get my app to work the way I want. Maybe this is not possible which would be a valid answer of course.

I have an activity defined as follows in my app:

    <activity
        android:name="MyActivity"
        android:label="MyActivityLabel"
        android:launchMode="singleTask" >
        <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="MyActivityCustomUrlScheme" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

When I start my App in the emulator and then open the browser and type a URL like:

MyActivityCustomUrlScheme://mycustomHost.com?someOptions

the only thing happening is that chrome tries googling for it, which is not what I want. If I send myself an SMS with this scheme, the scheme inside is not recognised as such and not clickable :(

I want to do that, because I already have an iOS App in the store, which uses the scheme MyActivityCustomUrlScheme://mycustomHost.com?someOptions and it would be a lot of hazel to change it everywhere, as users get this url send by email or SMS. I'd be really thankful if someone can help me out on this problem.

Answer 1

Try to use definition of host :

    <activity android:name="MyActivity" 
            android:label="MyActivityLabel" 
            android:launchMode="singleTask">
            <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="MyActivityCustomUrlScheme" android:host="mycustomHost.com" />
            </intent-filter>
    </activity>