Open Android App from URL

Hello,

I've just run into a similar issue, and I could figure out how to open the App from a URL, at least.

First, open your .apk build in the Android Studio and edit the AndroidManifest file in there. In my case, my app bundle identifier is "com.vizAR.OppaAR" and I wanted to open the app by accessing "www.eduardo-cg.com/test", so I add this info into the AndroidManifest, inside my main activity:

 <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.eduardo-cg.com"
                     android:path="/test" />
 </intent-filter>

And at my site I created a button with the following html code:

 <a href="intent://www.eduardo-cg.com/test#Intent;scheme=http;package=com.vizAR.OppaAR;end;">Open App</a>

So when I click at the button, it opens the app, if it's installed on the phone, or the PlayStore, if it isn't.

I still haven't figure out how to pass a param to the game, but it's the first step, anyway ;) If you did resolve that, please tell me.

Good luck!

Hi, here my solution working for me to complete cronem answer. First , you complete URL with args like this for a string in this example

  <a href="intent://www.eduardo-cg.com/test#Intent;scheme=http;package=com.vizAR.OppaAR;S.namestring=mystring;end;">Open App</a>

The "S" at the beginning of the "namestring" parameter defines it as a String. Other types can be:

String => 'S' Boolean =>'B' Byte => 'b' Character => 'c' Double => 'd' Float => 'f' Integer => 'i' Long => 'l' Short => 's'

then create a start code like this example :

public class getExtraName : MonoBehaviour {

// Use this for initialization void Start () {

   string yourname = "";
 
   AndroidJavaClass UnityPlayer = new AndroidJavaClass("com.unity3d.player.UnityPlayer");
   AndroidJavaObject currentActivity = UnityPlayer.GetStatic<AndroidJavaObject>("currentActivity");
 
   AndroidJavaObject intent = currentActivity.Call<AndroidJavaObject>("getIntent");
   bool hasExtra = intent.Call<bool>("hasExtra", "namestring");
 
 
   if (hasExtra)
   {
       AndroidJavaObject extras = intent.Call<AndroidJavaObject>("getExtras");
       yourname = extras.Call<string>("getString", "namestring");            
 
   }
 

} }

Hope helpfull

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Thanks to both. Finally, im using the deep link plugin. In the plugin documentation, it say about use a url like this:

test

But if you want that Play Store open if the aplication is not intalled, you can write this:

test2

I noticed that are a conflict whit manifest.xml if you use google play services pluggin, im not using services for the moment, but in future i need to study how to resolve this issue...