Launch the Android App using deep linking

Question

I'm trying to launch my Android App, using deep linking. Basically, the users will receive emails with links, when the user clicked the link, the App should launch. I know how to do the basic deep linking, however, I want to launch the actual App not just a specific activity. My deep linking scheme is something like "mydeeplinking" and in the email is like "mydeeplinking://". I am looking for Something similar to the iOS deep linking, which launch the entire App. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Basically, all you need to do is use intent-filter to tell Android what type of data should be routed to your app.

AndroidManifest.xml:

<activity android:name="com.example.MainActivity" >

    <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" />
        <data android:scheme="https" />

        <data android:host="www.example.com" />

        <data android:path="/" />
        <data android:path="/map" />

    </intent-filter>

</activity>

This will launch your MainActivity when the user clicks any of these links:

http://www.example.com/
https://www.example.com/
http://www.example.com/map
https://www.example.com/map