Open Android app from URL using intent-filter not working

Question

I have an Android app that people use as a replacement for a website. Hence, when users encounter an URL to the website, I want to give them the option to \"open the URL\" i

Answer 1

@nurieta, your answer did the trick for me thanks!

One word of advice since I am dealing with potential query strings, I handled it through a bit of code in the .java in order to determine if to just open the app or to send you to a specific location in the app. My app is just a WebView that runs a JQuery mobile app.

    if(getIntent().getData()!=null){//check if intent is not null
        Uri data = getIntent().getData();//set a variable for the Intent
        String scheme = data.getScheme();//get the scheme (http,https)
        String fullPath = data.getEncodedSchemeSpecificPart();//get the full path -scheme - fragments

        combine = scheme+"://"+fullPath; //combine to get a full URI
    }

    String url = null;//declare variable to hold final URL
    if(combine!=null){//if combine variable is not empty then navigate to that full path
        url = combine;
    }
    else{//else open main page
        url = "http://www.example.com";
    }
    webView.load(url);