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Could Kiwix Android open wikipedia.org links?

Or would this be too difficult?

I did do some preliminary research into this and as far as I am aware to open domain links like that requires control over domain you are accessing.

Hmmm . . . . All the unofficial Reddit apps can open Reddit links. NewPipe can open Youtube links. Twidiere can open Twitter links. I don't think we need to control wikipedia.org to register as an opener for wikipedia.org links. Remember, we are simply registering our app withing the android system.

@TimMagee @mhutti1 , Actually, it just requires an intent filter.

You just need to add the following code in the android manifest:

<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="www.wikipedia.com" android:scheme="http" />
</intent-filter>

Oh ok. I equated offline search with linking for some reason. Is there a way to programmically add hosts though?

@mhutti1 I am not quite sure I understand. By "programmically adding hosts", do you mean that we add a set of hosts in a resource file and run a loop in the android manifest, and reference a host from the file in each iteration to make the intent filter?

Yes something like that.

I did some research on this topic, but i couldn't find much. I don't think we can add the loop directly in the xml file. However, we can write a simple python script that takes a resource file containing the hosts and generate the required xml code.

Ok, we can at least add a few different popular ones even if we can't do it programmically.

This tickets depends in addition of the implementation of https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/issues/278

It might be possible to implement this without that fix with a small workaround to edit the URL before passing it.

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This issue is still as relevant today as it ever has been.

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Here one problem is as well that, how to know that Kiwix has actually the ZIM able to provide the specific Wikipedia article provided?