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5 Answers

• For iOS, check the Info.plist file in the (project)/build/iphone folder and look for the CFBundleURLSchemes key. The value it lists under the array element is the name assigned for the custom URL. You can change that if necesary, but just knowing it may be sufficient for you. I think the default is basically your project name in lowercase.

  Once you have that name, use it in a URL and add :// followed by whatever you want:

  mybundleurlscheme://foobar?attribute=value&another_attribute=value2

  In your app, use Ti.App.getArguments() to find out what was passed into the program. The caveat here is detecting the difference between a launch and pause/resume activity.

  Last I played with this, a pause/resume would end up still leaving the same value in Ti.App.getArguments() making it harder to correctly detect a new launch vs resume activity.

  A couple of pointers here:

  • Save a copy of Ti.App.getArgumets() for later comparison

  • Add a app listener for the 'resumed' event (NOT the 'resume' event) and check Ti.App.getArguments(). The value is not yet available during the 'resume' event (when app is preparing to resume) but is during the 'resumed' event (when app has resumed).

  • When 'resumed' event has the same value you originally saved, either the user did a pause/resume or the same custom URL was launched a second time. In my scenario, I could get by treating both the same but YMMV.

  Here is a code snippet from a project where I experimented with this. It is from a few SDK versions back, so perhaps there is a better way now:

  // Save initial launch command line arguments
  Ti.App.launchURL = '';
  Ti.App.pauseURL = '';
  var cmd = Ti.App.getArguments();
  if ( (getTypeOf(cmd) == 'object') && cmd.hasOwnProperty('url') ) {
      Ti.App.launchURL = cmd.url;
      Ti.API.info( 'Launched with url = ' + Ti.App.launchURL );
  }
  
  // Save launch URL at the time last paused
  Ti.App.addEventListener( 'pause', function(e) {
      Ti.App.pauseURL = Ti.App.launchURL;
  });
  
  // After app is fully resumed, recheck if launch arguments
  // have changed and ignore duplicate schemes.
  Ti.App.addEventListener( 'resumed', function(e) {
      Ti.App.launchURL = '';
      cmd = Ti.App.getArguments();
      if ( (getTypeOf(cmd) == 'object') && cmd.hasOwnProperty('url') ) {
          if ( cmd.url != Ti.App.pauseURL ) {
              Ti.App.launchURL = cmd.url;
              Ti.API.info( 'Resumed with url = ' + Ti.App.launchURL );
          }
      }
  });
  

  At this point I can check Ti.App.launchURL and deal with it as I like.

• OK, so here is the recipe for URL scheme on Android…

  But if you prefer, post a proper & different question, so that I answer to it rather than with these small comments (who doesn't support lists…), but as you wish…

  The first thing you have to do is to create a "custom" AndroidManifest.xml file. in order to do it create a folder in your application project folder () name platform, and inside it another folder named android, and inside this create a folder named android ( platform/android ) copy the AndroidManifest.xml that you can find in your build/android/.

  If we resume simply with unix commands :

  cd MyAppHome
  mkdir platform
  mkdir platform/android
  cp build/android/AndroidManifest.xml platform/android/
  

  such that you get the following project structure

  <MyAppHome>
   - Resources/
   - ...
   - platform/
      - android/
         - AndroidManifest.xml
  

  Then the next step is to edit the AndroidManifest.xml. Open it, and go to the lines between the and .

  There you should find a the main of your mobile app.

  There you should add lines such that you have (some lines can already be there, so just add the lines you do not already have)

  <application
          android:icon="@drawable/appicon"
          android:label="MobileApp"
          android:name="MobileappApplication"
          android:debuggable="false"
      >
          <activity
              android:name=".MobileappActivity"
              android:label="MobileApp"
              android:theme="@style/Theme.Titanium"
              android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"
          >
              <intent-filter>
                  <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
                       <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
                       <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
                  <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
                       <data  android:scheme="Mobileapp" />
              </intent-filter>
          </activity>
  
               <!-- TI_APPLICATION -->
  

  And to call your app from an URL, use Mobileapp://

  Be careful with UPPERCASE and LOWERCASE letters in AndroidManifest.xml….I banged my head to walls for 1-2 days because of this….

  Wherever you see 'Mobileapp' instead of 'MobileApp', it is not a mistake…..Android cannot handle the uppercase letters except for the first one…

  This is also the case with the URL, if you use 'MobileApp://' nothing will happen, but it will work with 'Mobileapp://' .

  (At least, when I first did the URL schemes, I was with SDK 1.6.2, so I had to be careful with letter cases…I don't know if it is still relevant with 1.7.0, but all I know is that my URL schemes still continue to work :) :) )

  Hope that this will help you.

  Tell me if it is ok for you.

• In SDK 3.0, there is No need to create a Custom AndroidManifest.xml, but rather simply open your tiapp.xml and find your <android> <application> node, and make sure this is added in there:

  <activity
              android:name=".MobileappActivity"
              android:label="MobileApp"
              android:theme="@style/Theme.Titanium"
              android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"
          >
              <intent-filter>
                  <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
                       <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
                       <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
                  <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
                       <data  android:scheme="Mobileapp" />
              </intent-filter>
          </activity>
  

• It doesn't work for me . When i hit my app name in browser it by default searches in google and open the web version of my app. Please help me.

• For open link in android you have to write following code:

  <application android:icon="@drawable/appicon" android:label="Buddy Drinks" android:name="BuddyDrinksApplication">
  <activity android:name="Application_Activity_Name" android:label="@string/app_name" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize">
  <intent-filter>
  <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN"/>
  <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW"/>
  </intent-filter>
  </activity>
  <activity android:name="Package _Name.Application_Activity_Name" android:label="@string/app_name" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize">
  <intent-filter android:label="@string/app_name">
  <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
  <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
  <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
  <data android:scheme="Schema_name _As_you_want" android:host="As_you_want"/>
  </intent-filter>
  </activity>

  Now got to the terminal write command(Mac terminal command)
  ./adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "Schema_name://Host_Name" Package_Name

  run this command your application will start
  You can check this via create a link also.
  For create the link follow this link
  https://developers.google.com/app-indexing/webmasters/test