Registering url scheme for app

s710

In order to implement OAuth workflows, I need my app to listen to callback URLs called by the browser after authentication. Since I didn't find anything covering ubuntu touch, I tried to follow this example:

[Desktop Entry]
_Name=MyApp
Exec=MyApp %U
Icon=assets/logo.svg
Terminal=false
Type=Application
X-Ubuntu-Touch=true
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/myapp

QML:

[...]
            Label {
                id: label
                Layout.alignment: Qt.AlignHCenter
                text: i18n.tr('Press the button below and check the logs! ') + Qt.application.arguments[1]
            }
[...]

Now after I installed the app on my Volla Phone, whenever I enter myapp://something in the browser, I will get a prompt asking whether or not I will allow to pass this to "some system app", however after accepting, nothing happens.

I would expect that MyApp will be foregrounded and the something-part is passed as Qt.application.arguments[1].

Does this even work on Ubuntu Touch? If so, what am I missing?

kugiigi

Check the url dispatcher section
https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/appdev/guides/importing-CH-urldispatcher.html

s710

@kugiigi Thank you, that worked. Although the documentation seems to be outdated / pointing to files not matching the example, so I had to make some adjustments.

flohack

@s710 Please make PRs then to improve the documents, thanks!

s710

@flohack How would I do this?

flohack

@s710 Well our documentation is hosted here: https://github.com/ubports/docs.ubports.com - you can either clone the repo to your local disk, or make online changes. Then, after submitting the changes, open a pull request and we will review and merge it if ok.