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put a Calendar Entry with Backlink to an app

Inside our App there is a "add Calendar entry" function, that opens a Calendar-Entry-Edit-Activity. I'll like to put a link inside the Message, that the user can click to come back to our App with additional Informations. Inside the Manifest we have the following Intent-filter Entry:

<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="http" android:host="our.namespace.de" android:path="/search" />
</intent-filter>

to put a link inside like this:

http://our.namespace.de/search/some_infos

A click on it triggers an Activity-chooser, and every browser is showing up inside that list. How to create a link, only our App listens to? The problem here is that any other type than html will not get recognized as link inside the Calendar-TextView

Solution

  • I think that should be android:pathPrefix if you are trying to match the URL you link to.

    Regardless, one downside of the http:// approach for launching apps is that it will bring up all browsers in addition to your app.

    You can attempt to use Intent and toUri() to create a representation of an arbitrary Intent, and use that as a link target.