facebook opening hybrid app in their webview

Question

I am working on developing mobile in ionic framework, and i am using custom scheme url for app.

Feature i am working:

When user share anything on facebook, and when other user click on that facebook shared link they will redirected to that shared content details page inside of app if they have installed app otherwise it will redirect to apple or google play store.

Issue:

When user click on that shared link on facebook, app is opened in facebook webview rather than opening app itself.

Does anyone came across such issues? Or am i doing something wrong with this?

Platforms:

Ionic Framework for app
PHP for backend.

PHP code for redirect user to app:

header("Location: MYAPP://eventpage/eventID");

afaik you can´t break out of the webview, only the user can do that — andyrandy, Feb 23 '16 at 08:39
@luschn Thanks for quick response, so any work around on it? — Dipesh Parmar, Feb 23 '16 at 08:40
@luschn : yes i got it that, but isn't there something which force new webview session from hybrid app ? I am checking on it... — Dipesh Parmar, Feb 23 '16 at 08:45
check out that other thread, it´s about the same issue. as i expected, there is no way. — andyrandy, Feb 23 '16 at 08:52
@luschn i got it bro. Thanks for help, i will post answer sooner. — Dipesh Parmar, Feb 23 '16 at 09:45
@luschn can you remove this Duplicate question flag, this is not duplicated at all. i am having issues with hybrid app and other OP has issues in javascript. please remove flag as i am unable to post valid answer. — Dipesh Parmar, Feb 23 '16 at 10:17
did you find a solution for it? it does sound like the same issue (breaking out of the webview) — andyrandy, Feb 23 '16 at 10:21
@luschn : Yes i did., Please remove flag so i can post answer so other can solve it — Dipesh Parmar, Feb 23 '16 at 10:21
reopened it. very bad idea to create a new thread, you should know that with your stackoverflow reputation... ;) — andyrandy, Feb 23 '16 at 11:27
@luschn yes agreed, but i was keen to post answer and you were not unlocking me, i am so sorry bro. Deleted that duplicate question. — Dipesh Parmar, Feb 23 '16 at 11:32

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 23 '16 at 11:31

After looking into AndroidManifest.xml of my app, I found the following preference:

<activity android:name="MainActivity" android:launchMode="singleTop"

And i read Android Document and found below lines there.

As shown in the table below, the modes fall into two main groups, with "standard" and "singleTop" activities on one side, and "singleTask" and "singleInstance" activities on the other. An activity with the "standard" or "singleTop" launch mode can be instantiated multiple times.

So i changed my Manifest as below and its working fine.

<activity android:name="MainActivity" android:launchMode="singleInstance"
                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

facebook opening hybrid app in their webview

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