Android trims the rest of the deep link URI after ampersand

Question

I'm trying to add yet another deep link to my android application, I want my URI to look like this : my_app://photos?id=147619727001201&edit=true. The problem is that the system doesn't recognize this URI, so I just get trimmed version of it (my_app://photos?id=147619727001201). I'm just curious how android system treats deep links, and if there is any way to make this URI work. I wan't to mention that everything works fine for my other URIs, which don't contain ampersand. Here is my intent filter :

               <intent-filter android:label="My Item">
                    <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />

                    <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
                    <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />

                    <data
                        android:path="/photos"
                        android:pathPattern="\?"
                        android:scheme="my_app" />
                </intent-filter>

And here is my activity's on create method :

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        Uri target = getIntent().getData();
    }

after the following command :

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "my_app://photos?id=170262497002201&edit=true"

I get my_app://photos?id=170262497002201 in target.toString();

Answer 1

try this command instead:

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "my_app://photos?id=170262497002201%26edit=true"

The problem is bug in platform tools version 21 bug issue

Answer 2

You can also try escaping the '&' character by adding a '\' before it

For example:

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "fantasticapp://www/?cc=de\&tagset=123" robertoduran.isthegreatest