how to deeplink an app with url in android if url has special character

Question

I want my app to be opened on only one url that is in the form

http://www.myhost.com/#/followThis/Param1/Param2

this is my intent

       <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="myhost.com" android:scheme="http" android:path="/#/followthis" />
            <data android:host="www.myhost.com" android:scheme="http" android:path="/#/followthis" />
        </intent-filter>

now if i replace # with any letter say 'a' it works fine any way i can get this???

Answer 1

try with:

String query = URLEncoder.encode("apples oranges", "utf-8");
String url = "http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=" + query;