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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Krzysztof Tataradziński
<ktatar156@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> while using web browser and click on link to Wikipedia website or forum with
> Tapatalk plugin, I expect that my action will open app dedicated for that
> action. For now, it's not working, still opening that links in web browser.
> Which site that problem stand for - third party app (that is not developed
> to work in that way) or browser app (that don't allow/can't do that)?
> Where should I report that bug?
> In example new version of https://uappexplorer.com/app/wikipedia.mattirn
> supports for now opening wiki article from NearBy scope, but not from
> browser.

Hi Krzysztof,

As pointed out by Niklas, apps can register as handlers for custom URL
schemes. When a link is clicked in the browser which it doesn’t know
how to handle, it will be delegated to the URL dispatcher which will
select the corresponding app for handling it, if any. That works for
custom URL schemes, not for regular http:// or https:// URLs. Those
will always open in the browser.

Note that URL dispatcher knows how to handle intent:// URLs, and apps
can register as handlers for those by specifying the android package
name as domain-suffix, e.g.:

    {
        "protocol": "intent",
        "domain-suffix": "com.google.android.apps.maps"
    }

Documentation on URL dispatcher available here:
https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/start/platform/guides/url-dispatcher-guide/

I hope this helps,

 Olivier