I've been reading the docs for supporting app links for android and the website my app supports works with subdomains but there's too many subdomains and they are built dynamically. I was wondering if there is a way to support many subdomains without having to specifiy them all in the intent-filter tag.
Here is the link to the example from google: http://developer.android.com/training/app-links/index.html#request-verify The example is in the Supporting app linking for multiple subdomains location.
I thought a regex would work but apparently that's not supported when defining the host. I don't want to list all of them since that would mean having to push a new release with every new subdomain created
<activity ...>
<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:scheme="https" />
<data android:host=".*.example.org" />
<data android:pathPattern="/.*" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
I would prefer not to use a third party lib or service.. But any suggestions that work for you would be appreciated to understand how to make this work.
Quoting from: Verify Android App Links
Alternatively, if you declare your hostname with a wildcard (such as *.example.com), you must publish your assetlinks.json file at the root hostname (example.com). For example, an app with the following intent filter will pass verification for any sub-name of example.com (such as foo.example.com) as long as the assetlinks.json file is published at https:/ /example.com/.well- known/assetlinks.json:
<application>
<activity android:name=”MainActivity”>
<intent-filter android:autoVerify="true">
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
<data android:scheme="https" android:host="*.example.com" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
It seems the previous answers are outdated and Android now does has a support for wildcard in host name. As per the documentation it is now supported.