I'm trying to set an intent filter to launch my activity when user clicks on the following URI: example.com/pathA/pathB/#pathC/someGUID
so I've added the following XML to the manifest file:
<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:host="example.com"
android:pathPrefix="/pathA/pathB/#pathC"
android:scheme="http" />
</intent-filter>
I'm thinking that the '#' char is messing everthing up but I've tried escaping this char with no luck. Any ideas?
UPDATE: when I said "tried escaping" I meant using percent encoding (# equals %23)
Intent filters use UriMatcher to parse URIs and determine if there is a match. #
is the URI wildcard for a number as seen in examples in UriMatcher. Per the UriMatcher source code, there is no escape sequence to escape a #
in a URI. Therefore you should use another, non-reserved symbol (note that *
is also reserved as the wildcard for any text).