Question

I need my Android application to run a certain Activity in my app, responding to the following Uri data from the Intent that was sent out:

http://www.example.com/redirect.aspx?customurl=example%3a%2f%2f%3fop%3dexampledetail%26stuff%3d12345%26morestuff%3dI%2520Love%25Android

If I use the following in my manifest (for the Activity that I want to respond to the Intent), I can capture this, but the chooser pops up (which I don’t want):

<intent-filter>
 <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
 <data android:scheme="http" android:host="www.example.com" />
 <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
</intent-filter>

Since I don’t want the chooser to pop up, I tried to use the android:pathPattern, or android:pathPrefix in the tag to further filter to make sure that only my app responds but it isn’t working for me.

Can anyone help me do this?

Answer 1

It looks like your dealing with data which comes from your own application, so don’t use your “private” URL as the target of the intent but create a component specific Intent and give it the URL of your data as an EXTRA parameter.

Something like:

Uri privateUri = Uri.parse("http://yourserver.com/path/to/data");
Intent i = new Intent(context, yourActivity.class);
i.putExtra("DATA_URI", privateUri);
startActivity(i);

In yourActivity.class, you would just have to get the Uri with the following code:

Uri privateUri = (Uri) getIntent().getParcelableExtra("DATA_URI");