How do you include ampersands in URLs for adb shell am start?

Question

Using

$ adb shell am start some://url

I can launch URLs using activity manager. However if I include multiple URL parameters, all but the first parameter gets stripped out.

Example:

$ adb shell am start http://www.example.com?param1=1&param2=2

Returns:

$ Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=http://www.example.com?param1=1 }

and param2 disappears as anything after an ampersand gets ignored. I'm wondering if there's some encoding/escape character for the & that will prevent this.

Answer 1

use escape character \:

$ adb shell am start "http://www.example.com?param1=1\&param2=2"

Answer 2

The following format seems to work. Note the quotes format ' ":

$ adb shell am start -d '"http://www.example.com?param1=1&param2=2"'