I have set up a simple Xamarin app to try and use Deep Linking. The Deep Linking works perfectly when I use the IOS simulator. But I can't seem to get it to work for Android while debugging using an Android device.
I've set up my MainActivity.cs like so
[IntentFilter(new[] { Intent.ActionView },
Categories = new[] {
Intent.ActionView,
Intent.CategoryDefault,
Intent.CategoryBrowsable
},
DataScheme = "photocapture",
DataHost = "PhotoCapture",
DataPathPrefix = "/photocapture/")
]
public class MainActivity : global::Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.FormsAppCompatActivity
{
protected override void OnCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
TabLayoutResource = Resource.Layout.Tabbar;
ToolbarResource = Resource.Layout.Toolbar;
base.OnCreate(savedInstanceState);
global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init(this, savedInstanceState);
AndroidAppLinks.Init(this);
LoadApplication(new App());
}
}
Then in my App.cs I have an override for OnAppLinkRequestReceived
protected override async void OnAppLinkRequestReceived(Uri uri)
{ .... }
On the Android device I've download a HTML file with the following href
<html>
<head>
<title>Product 12345</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="photocapture://PhotoCapture.Views.PhotoCapturePage?id=123">Deeplink</a>
</body>
</html>
When I click this link on the Android device the app is not opening up and the OnAppLinkRequestReceived is not catching in the debugger.
Also if I search the app name of the android device it does show up. The problem is just when clicking deep link from an external source.
Am I missing a step or have I done something wrong?
