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I've started a new project in Android Studio and added this to my androidmanifest.xml:

    <activity android:name=".MainActivity">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>

        <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="www.example.com"
                android:pathPrefix="/gizmos"
                android:scheme="http"/>
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

Then I went to Google Chrome and typed in: http://www.example.com/gizmos. The App doesn't open. And then tried command line:

mac-van-jim:DeeplinkTest jimclermonts$ adb shell am start -n eu.theappfactory.deeplinktest/MainActivity
Starting: Intent { cmp=eu.theappfactory.deeplinktest/MainActivity }
Error type 3
Error: Activity class {eu.theappfactory.deeplinktest/MainActivity} does not exist.

And this one:

mac-van-jim:DeeplinkTest jimclermonts$ adb shell am start -W -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "http://www.example.com" eu.theappfactory
Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=http://www.example.com/... pkg=eu.theappfactory }
Error: Activity not started, unable to resolve Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=http://www.example.com/... flg=0x10000000 pkg=eu.theappfactory }

I've tried these threads:

Deep Link does not work on Android

Android deep linking is not working

Deep-linking intent does not work

Nothing is working? I can remember this used to work? Maybe it's because of the new Android App Links?

EDIT: I figured out that it doesn't work in Chrome (anymore) but when creating and uploading a webpage, it also doesn't work:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>

<body>

    <a href="Click here" target="_blank">http://www.example.com/gizmos</a>

</body>

</head>

</html>
Jim Clermonts
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To start your app with the provided url you should run this command:

adb shell "am start 'http://www.example.com/gizmos'"

Also, Chrome is designed to not open your app if you copy/pate the link in the URL search bar.

Simon Marquis
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  • You sure about chrome ? If I go on reddit.com it starts the dialog box directly but not working on my websites. The command you provided make the box appears however – yoann84 Aug 13 '21 at 20:42