Android how to create Custom URL scheme with the given format myapp://http://

Question

I have researched through most of the custom URL scheme Q&A and I have not found my possible answer.

I want my app to be launched by clicking a certain URL in t

Answer 1

That's a misuse of the URI scheme and is invalid. The HTTP URL you want to pass is a piece of data and should thus be sent in the query string.

myapp://somehost/action?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.name.com%2Fpath%2Fpath2%2F

Answer 2

you need use a hyperlink to start the app . for example ,you set scheme="yourpackagename" ,you need to set a hyperlink like this: yourpackagename://host ,and you should vist the hyperlink on you moble browser .If you do not have host lable,just remove it.

<!-- Test for URL scheme -->
<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:host="host" android:scheme="yourpackagename" />
</intent-filter>
<!-- End Test for URL scheme -->

If your activity has more than one scheme, you should use 2 or more to specify it

Answer 3

As CommonsWare said the given URI upon I needed to create a Scheme is not a valid URI thus the scheme didn't not work and the application didn't launch. After this explanation the server side guys were convinced to change the URI to myapp://... and it worked like magic :).

The Activity looks like this now :

 <activity
    android:name="com.myapp.test.SplashScreen"
    android:exported="true"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:screenOrientation="portrait"
    android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen" >
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

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

    <!-- Test for URL scheme -->
    <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>
    <!-- End Test for URL scheme -->
</activity>