Android. Deep linking doesn't work with http/https scheme

Question

I added a deep linking to my Android app this way:

<activity
        android:name=".views.DeepLinkingActivity"
        android:exported="true">
        <intent-filter android:autoVerify="true">
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />

            <data
                android:scheme="https"
                android:host="example.com"/>
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

When I click on https://example.com I get redirected to the web site.

When I change android:scheme="https" to android:scheme="appscheme" it works and it redirects me to my app.

How to force my app to be opened via https scheme?

UPDATE

I added a subdomain and it still doesn't work.

<activity
        android:name=".views.DeepLinkActivity"
        android:exported="true">
        <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="https"
                android:host="www.example.ru"/>
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

is your project package example.com? else replace it with your package name also try replacing host with this line android:host="open" do these both and let me know — Aniruddha K.M, Oct 11 '17 at 06:17
if I replace host with "open" how is it suppose to know from which site I want to be redirected? — Rainmaker, Oct 11 '17 at 07:04
it will redirect for all sites and links as soon as the schema matches — Aniruddha K.M, Oct 11 '17 at 07:05
ok. my data look now this way - but no result. It redirects me to a web page — Rainmaker, Oct 11 '17 at 07:12
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/156432/discussion-between-rainmaker-and-war-hero). — Rainmaker, Oct 11 '17 at 07:25
check this out https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/deep-linking.html with path prefix you can use http/https schema — Aniruddha K.M, Oct 11 '17 at 09:51
The same result. It works but not from browser. Did you have success with a http/https scheme? — Rainmaker, Oct 11 '17 at 12:33
I tried to put several data into intent-filter, but it still doesn't want to redirect me from https://example.com. Could you please update your answer with your solution? — Rainmaker, Oct 11 '17 at 14:53
Please replace the intent filter from the example and see if it works — Aniruddha K.M, Oct 11 '17 at 16:53
Try this , you have missed out path prefix which is crucial in this example if we open wwww.example.com/gizmos it will ask and open the app — Aniruddha K.M, Oct 11 '17 at 17:07
finally. it worked from the very beginning. The problem is - it doesn't work when I click on the link from my email. but if I click this link from (the button on a website) somewhere else - it works. Do you have an idea how to make it work from email letter? — Rainmaker, Oct 11 '17 at 17:35
I am facing the same issue when add url:scheme with my app name it opens the app but not with https. I have tried the answer given below but it couldn't work. can you please guid me about this — Umar Rasheed, Aug 27 '18 at 14:26

CoolMind · Answer 1 · 2020-04-27T06:52:34.330

Thanks to veritas1 I removed android:autoVerify="true" from https-scheme. I also changed the scheme from https to http. (You can read about autoVerify).

So, currently have two different schemes:

<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:host="your-site.com"
        android:pathPrefix="/"
        android:scheme="http"
        />
</intent-filter>
<intent-filter android:autoVerify="true">
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />

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

    <data
        android:host="your-site.com"
        android:pathPrefix="/"
        android:scheme="myapp"
        />
</intent-filter>

When clicking on a link myapp://your-site.com/... an application will be opened. When clicking on http://your-site.com/... Chrome browser will offer to open in the application or another browser, while other mobile browsers ignore this and try to open themselves.

UPDATE

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/60342565/2914140 for App Linking.

Aniruddha K.M · Accepted Answer · 2017-10-11T09:48:19.713

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Hi please use the following data and try also refer this doc

<intent-filter>
                <data
                    android:scheme="ou unique scheme(appname,package name)" />

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

OR

  <data
                android:scheme="you unique scheme(appname,package name)"
                android:host="www.example.ru"/>

edited Oct 11 '17 at 09:48

answered Oct 11 '17 at 08:17

Aniruddha K.M

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How does it differ from the question and how does it solve the problem? – CoolMind Jan 14 '20 at 11:22

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 11 '17 at 06:29

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You refer to deep linking but android:autoVerify="true" is used for App linking, so the domain example.com (which you don't own?) is going to get checked for a digital asset links json file. See https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/index.html

For your test to work I'd suggest removing android:autoVerify="true" and adding a subdomain to the host e.g. android:host="www.example.com"

answered Oct 11 '17 at 06:29

veritas1

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I changed android:host="example.com" to android:host="www.example.com", deleted autoVerify, but no result, did i miss somth? – Rainmaker Oct 11 '17 at 06:42
Now it says that connection is not secure. By the way I've added asset links file to the server according to your link but still no result – Rainmaker Oct 11 '17 at 06:54
Any idea? Do you have at least one app which work with https? – Rainmaker Oct 11 '17 at 07:28
Where does it say "connection is not secure"?, If it works correctly, you should be presented with the disambiguation dialog to select which app you would like to open the link, I have tested with and works fine. You may have added the asset links file your app server, but it's `https://example.com/.well-known/assetlinks.json` that's going to be resolved as `example.com` is the domain your trying to verify. – veritas1 Oct 11 '17 at 07:36
I edited mt question like you said, look at it, but it doesn't work – Rainmaker Oct 11 '17 at 07:45
Where has `android:host="www.example.ru"` come from? Just make sure the clickable link matches the host specified in the manifest. – veritas1 Oct 11 '17 at 07:52
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/156440/discussion-between-veritas1-and-rainmaker). – veritas1 Oct 11 '17 at 08:28

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 11 '17 at 06:15

Try this

<activity
             android:name=".views.DeepLinkingActivity"
        android:exported="true">


           <intent-filter android:autoVerify="true">
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />

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

                <data
                    android:host="open"
                    android:scheme="example" />
            </intent-filter>
            <intent-filter android:autoVerify="true">
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />

                <data
                    android:host="example.com"
                    android:pathPrefix="/"
                    android:scheme="http" />
            </intent-filter>
           <intent-filter android:autoVerify="true">
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />

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

                <data
                    android:host="example.com"
                    android:pathPrefix="/"
                    android:scheme="https" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

yes we are defined both https and http also in intent-filter . It is working my side — J Ramesh, Oct 11 '17 at 06:26
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/156431/discussion-between-rainmaker-and-j-ramesh). — Rainmaker, Oct 11 '17 at 07:24
can you open your app with link which has https scheme? or it just works with an example scheme? — Rainmaker, Oct 11 '17 at 08:29

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 12 '17 at 09:52

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Please check below it may be help

https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/android-deep-linking/index.html?index=..%2F..%2Findex#0

answered Oct 12 '17 at 09:52

amrik

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 09 '17 at 07:55

Just use http. Don't know when the implementation is changed.

But I just tested that using http will make both http and https work.

So change you intent filter by:

<intent-filter android:autoVerify="true">

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

</intent-filter>

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 06 '19 at 08:48

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youe can also add to it

sub.example.com

<intent-filter android:label="@string/app_name">
                <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" android:host="example.com" />
                <data android:scheme="app" android:host="com.example.example" />
            </intent-filter>

answered Nov 06 '19 at 08:48

eng mohamed emam

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in my cas it was like this http://app.mydomain.com/idvalue so it worked with me – eng mohamed emam Jan 14 '20 at 12:06
Thanks, I will try. – CoolMind Jan 14 '20 at 12:24
See the comment at the end of the [adding-filters](https://developer.android.com/training/app-links/deep-linking#adding-filters) section on duplicate data blocks. – omahena Oct 07 '22 at 10:08

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