Deep Linking Android with "&" character

Question

I want a user to be able to login using magic a link as below:

myapp://app.com/login-with-token?email=someEmail&token=sometoken

For some reason the app only receives the part before & character as:

myapp://app.com/login-with-token?email=someEmail

Does anybody have an idea how to work around this problem?

EDIT: Here's what I've added in AndroidManifest.xml

<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="myapp"
              android:host="app.com"
              android:pathPrefix="/"/>
</intent-filter>

How are you using the link? Redirected from javascript, php, in-app? — Simon Marquis, Jan 18 '18 at 09:36
For now, I'm only testing it in Android Studio: Run -> Edit Configurations -> Launch URL — Arkalyk Akash, Jan 18 '18 at 09:38
Is there a reason you're using `&` instead of `?` for the query param? — Simon Marquis, Jan 18 '18 at 09:38
@SimonMarquis There's no particular reason, it's just what our backend returns and it works perfectly on iOS. Seems like we'll have to replace `&` with `?`. — Arkalyk Akash, Jan 18 '18 at 09:58
Yes, query should begin with `?`, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier#Syntax — Simon Marquis, Jan 18 '18 at 10:46
Thanks for the link, @SimonMarquis! I've tried `myapp://app.com/login-with-token?email=someEmail;token=sometoken` with no success, though it follows the convention as well. `myapp://app.com/login-with-token?email=someEmail?token=sometoken` works nice by the way. — Arkalyk Akash, Jan 18 '18 at 11:09
The correct format would be: `myapp://app.com/login-with-token?email=someEmail&token=somet‌oken` — Simon Marquis, Jan 18 '18 at 11:49
Possible duplicate of [Android Deep Linking with multiple query parameters](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35645414/android-deep-linking-with-multiple-query-parameters) — Vadim Kotov, Apr 29 '19 at 14:29

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 18 '18 at 12:27

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Turns out the question has already been answered here.

SOLUTION:

\ has to be added before & when testing with adb/Android Studio.

answered Jan 18 '18 at 12:27

Arkalyk Akash

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Deep Linking Android with "&" character

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