how to launch windows phone app via browser url

Question

I am new to windows phone app development. Is it possible to open windows phone app via browser url. If possible, please someone help me.

How to implement my very own URI scheme on Android

please visit the above url;

but its possible in the android

 <activity
        android:name="TabHost"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
        <intent-filter>
            <data android:scheme="myschema" />

            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        </intent-filter>
 </activity>

below code is working in windows 8 desktop IE Browser

but its not working in the windows phone

<Applications>
 <Application Id="SDKSample.App" Executable="$targetnametoken$.exe"                                     EntryPoint="SDKSample.App">
  <Extensions>
    <Extension Category="windows.protocol">
      <Protocol Name="alsdkcs" m2:DesiredView="useLess"/>
    </Extension>
    <Extension Category="windows.fileTypeAssociation">
      <FileTypeAssociation Name=".alsdkcs" m2:DesiredView="useLess">
        <SupportedFileTypes>
          <FileType>.alsdkcs</FileType>
        </SupportedFileTypes>
      </FileTypeAssociation>
    </Extension>
  </Extensions>
  <m3:VisualElements DisplayName="Launcher API C# sample" Description="AssociationLaunching C# sample" ForegroundText="light" BackgroundColor="#00b2f0" Square150x150Logo="Assets\squaretile-sdk.png" Square44x44Logo="Assets\smallTile-Phone-sdk.png">
    <m3:DefaultTile ShortName="Launcher API C#" DefaultSize="square150x150Logo" Wide310x150Logo="Assets\tile-sdk.png" Square71x71Logo="Assets\mediumtile-sdk.png">
      <m3:ShowNameOnTiles>
        <m3:ShowOn Tile="square150x150Logo"/>
        <m3:ShowOn Tile="wide310x150Logo"/>
      </m3:ShowNameOnTiles>
    </m3:DefaultTile>
    <m3:SplashScreen Image="Assets\splash-Phone-sdk.png" BackgroundColor="#00b2f0"/>
    <m3:ApplicationView MinWidth="width320"/>
  </m3:VisualElements>
</Application>

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 04 '14 at 07:52

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Hell... I got the answer. It's working if I call via javascript

<input id="btnwindowsphone" type="button" class="button" name="" value="open windows phone"      onclick="javascript:loadwindowsphone();" /><br /><br />

function loadwindowsphone() {
                     window.location = 'alsdkcs://hd';
                 }

edited Jul 04 '14 at 07:52

Olter

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answered Jul 04 '14 at 07:14

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Nice !! Very useful !! – flaviussn Jan 10 '17 at 16:50

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 02 '14 at 07:43

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You can do the same for Windows phone - registering custom URI scheme that will open your app.

Here are some resources for you:

answered Jul 02 '14 at 07:43

Toni Petrina

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i have tried pasting mailto:test@gmail.com in the windows phone browser url. i got unsupported address – user3796642 Jul 02 '14 at 07:54
i have tried everything mentioned in the above two url but only thing i am getting is unsupported address – user3796642 Jul 02 '14 at 08:02
Why would that work? Did you register your app for mailto URI? I don't think that is possible, but I may be wrong. – Toni Petrina Jul 02 '14 at 08:52
– user3796642 Jul 02 '14 at 09:05
have you ever did this. need to launch the via browser like myprotocol://parameters – user3796642 Jul 03 '14 at 13:50

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 09 '16 at 22:50

This documentation article works for Windows Phone 8.1 / Windows Phone 10 Mobile:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/xaml/hh779670.aspx

If you're running into issues not being able to open the URI scheme you registered it's most likely because you're trying to open it using Internet Explorer / Edge. This will not work.

Instead send yourself an email containing the link or put it down into OneNote - just an external place, that actually links into the browser.

Otherwise IE / Edge will treat your scheme as http://myscheme/ instead of myscheme://.

how to launch windows phone app via browser url

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