Is there a way to pass a message from an Android browser to an app?

Question

I have a situation where I\'d like for some data to be passed from a mobile web site to a native Android app. A complication is that, in the normal case, the native Android app

Answer 1

See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7577379/710284

You can use an INSTALL_REFERRER link like:
http://market.android.com/details?id=your.package.name&referrer=your_wanted_parameter

After a user clicks this link and installs the application your broadcast receiver will receive a broadcast com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER with "your_wanted_parameter" value.

More info:
http://code.google.com/mobile/analytics/docs/android/#android-market-tracking
Get referrer after installing app from Android Market
Get Android Google Analytics referrer tag