How to manage andorid deeplink and Applink in one Activity?

Question

How to manage the deeplink and applink in one Activity? This is current AndroidManifest.xml setting.

    <activity android:name=".MainActivity" android:launchMode="singleTask">
        <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:scheme="peterworks" android:host="open"/>
        </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:scheme="https" android:host="peterworks.io"/>
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

Answer 1

This is sample code that manage your deeplinkActivity with deeplink and Android Applink.

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    // onNewIntent Method will process every deeplink data.
    onNewIntent(MainActivity.this.getIntent());

}

@Override
protected void onNewIntent(Intent intent) {
    super.onNewIntent(intent);

    // setIntent should be called for get new deeplink data. If this is not called, always same deeplink will called
    setIntent(intent);

    // Deeplink data process start
    Uri myDeeplink = intent.getData();

    if (myDeeplink != null){

        if(myDeeplink.getScheme().equals("https")) {
         // Do your things when Android Applink is open your app.

        } else {
         // Do your things when Deeplink is open your app.

        }

    }

}

Answer 2

You can try using the following library to make the process easier: https://github.com/airbnb/DeepLinkDispatch

It provides an annotation-based approach to integrate deep links.

Example from its documentation:

@DeepLink("example://example.com/deepLink/{id}")
public class SampleActivity extends Activity {
  @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    Intent intent = getIntent();
    if (intent.getBooleanExtra(DeepLink.IS_DEEP_LINK, false)) {
      Bundle parameters = intent.getExtras();
      String idString = parameters.getString("id");
      // Do something with idString
    }
  }
}