Listening For Incoming Links On Android With React-native

I am able to listen and handle incoming links on IOS with react-native using the linking library: https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/linking.html, but it shows the functi

Solution 1:

I just got it working! You just have to follow these instructions.

Basically, add an <intent-filter> under the existing one of your android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml, containing the VIEW action, the DEFAULT and BROWSABLE categories, and at least a <data>.

Then simply rebuild and reinstall your APK (react-native run-android), that's it! Links matching your <data> tags will now open in your app!

Now just catch this URL with Linking.getInitialURL() in the componentDidMount() of your main Javascript class!

Example of manifest:

<manifestxmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"package="net.yourapp"android:versionCode="1"android:versionName="0.1"><uses-permissionandroid:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /><uses-permissionandroid:name="android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW"/><uses-sdkandroid:minSdkVersion="16"android:targetSdkVersion="22" /><applicationandroid:name=".MainApplication"android:allowBackup="true"android:label="@string/app_name"android:largeHeap="true"android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher"android:theme="@style/AppTheme"><activityandroid:name=".MainActivity"android:label="@string/app_name"android:screenOrientation="portrait"android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|screenSize"><intent-filter><actionandroid:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /><categoryandroid:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /></intent-filter><!-- HERE: --><intent-filter><actionandroid:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" /><categoryandroid:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" /><categoryandroid:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" /><dataandroid:scheme="https"android:host="yoursite.net" /><dataandroid:scheme="https"android:host="yoursite.com" /><dataandroid:scheme="https"android:host="yoursite" /><dataandroid:scheme="customscheme"android:host="yourpath" /></intent-filter></activity><activityandroid:name="com.facebook.react.devsupport.DevSettingsActivity" /></application></manifest>