Question

I am trying to intercept a couple different links with my app, and I am having trouble with the intent-filter data parameters to do it.

Here are the 2 types of links that I want to intercept

1. http://www.domain.com/#id=abcdef123346
2. http://www.domain.com/social/landing/abcdef123456

I have already decided to have a separate activity to intercept both links and use java regex to start the correct activity. However I can’t seem to capture just these two formats without capturing something like http://www.domain.com/abc123

<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="http"
                android:host="www.domain.com"
                android:pathPattern="/#id.*" />
        </intent-filter>

This is what I am currently trying to intercept type 1 and for some reason it isn’t working.

This intent-filter correctly intercepts type 2

<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="http" />
            <data android:host="domain.com" />
            <data android:host="www.domain.com" />
            <data android:pathPrefix="/share/web" />
            <data android:pathPrefix="/social/landing" />
        </intent-filter>

Thanks,

Answer 1

I think that the string that pathPattern is matching is “/”, and “#id…” is omitted because it is part of the fragment. If you used http://www.domain.com/id/abcdef123456 instead, pathPattern could match “/id/.*” because it is part of the path.