Question

I’ve seen in some apps that when you click on a link it asks you if you want to open it in an app. I’ve seen in many posts that you can do

<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.ex-ample.com" android:scheme="http" />
</intent-filter>

I haven’t tried it, but every post seems to say it works. What I tried was:

<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:mimeType="vnd.android.cursor.item/vnd.example.crag" />
  <data android:host="www.ex-ample.com" android:scheme="http" />
</intent-filter>

and it doesn’t seem to work, I clicked on a link in a text that went to http://www.ex-ample.com/test/123 and it just opened in a browser.

I’m really wondering two things:

1. can you use a mineType and a host/scheme attribute together
2. can you see anything else wrong with this?

Answer 1

can you use a mineType and a host/scheme attribute together

Yes, at least according to the docs on <data>.

can you see anything else wrong with this?

If http://www.ex-ample.com/test/123 does not return a document of MIME type vnd.android.cursor.item/vnd.example.crag on an HTTP HEAD request, your <intent-filter> will not match.