how can cordova open app from http or https url?

Question

I found many answers for a custom URL-Scheme like this (mycoolapp://somepath).

This plugin for example adds a custom URL-Sheme.*

But I don\'t want a

Answer 1

For the same problem I've used existing webintent plugin, modified the android manifest file - add those lines to activity

and modified the index.html ondeviceready:

function deviceReady() {
    window.plugins.webintent.getUri(function(url) {
        console.log("INTENT URL: " + url);
        //...
    }); 
}

EDIT

I've just noticed a behavior which may be unwanted. When you open the app using the link (intent) from another application, it will (in many cases) create a new instance and not use the already running one (tested with gmail and skype). To prevent this a solution is to change Android Launch mode in config.xml file:

(It works with cordova 3.5, not sure about the older version)

Then you need to add one more function to ondeviceready:

window.plugins.webintent.onNewIntent(function(url) {
    console.log("INTENT onNewIntent: " + url);
});

This one is triggered when the app was already running and was brought to front with intent.