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App indexing Android Activity

I am trying to configure app indexing and running into issues with "Fetch". Below is what I have configured:

  1. Added and verified the website and app /apk
  2. Associated website and the apk / app.

  3. Added following configuration under the activity tag in AndroidManifest.xml

    <data
    android:host="mywebsite.com"
    android:pathPrefix="/mypage"
    android:scheme="http" />
<data
  android:host="mywebsite.com"
    android:pathPrefix="/mypage"
    android:scheme="http" />

On the fetch page - "android-app://package-name/" [already present / displayed on the page].

I entered the following on the text field - http://mywebsite.com/mypage, uploaded the debug apk (as the current version on google play doesn't have deep links). On verify, i get URL unsupported error. This is baffling me as I am following the exact steps mentioned in support / tutorial links.

Also, i noticed that the path displayed is not correct, this is what I see is /http:/mywebsite.com/mypage.

Please help, its been days since I am trying to resolve this.. have gone thru all the links several times but no luck.

Regards

Solution

  • You have to enter your URL in a different format. Required format for deep-linking is:

    android-app://your.app.package.name/schema/host/path

    In your case, you would use:

    android-app://your.app.package.name/http/mywebsite.com/mypage

    In "Fetch as Google" screen, you already have first part completed, so you only need to enter the following in the text field:

    http/mywebsite.com/mypage

    I also noticed that you are using the same data element twice in your intent-filter, so you can remove one.