bug: appUrlOpen listener not called on Android if app launched with ACTION_MAIN

[jh-gh]

Bug Report

Plugin(s)

Core App plugin on Android, Capacitor 2.4.3

Capacitor Version

Latest Dependencies:
  @capacitor/cli: 2.4.4
  @capacitor/core: 2.4.4
  @capacitor/android: 2.4.4
  @capacitor/electron: 2.4.4
  @capacitor/ios: 2.4.4

Installed Dependencies:

  @capacitor/ios not installed
  @capacitor/cli 2.4.3
  @capacitor/core 2.4.3
  @capacitor/android 2.4.3
  @capacitor/electron not installed

Platform(s)

Android

Current Behavior

When the app is launched with a uri and ACTION_MAIN, the appUrlOpen listener is NOT called. If the app is launched the same way but with ACTION_VIEW then the appUrlOpen listener IS called.

Expected Behavior

The appUrlOpen listener should be called as long as there is some data uri ... even if the action is ACTION_MAIN. The code currently checks both the uri and action and only continues if the action is set to ACTION_VIEW.

I'm not sure exactly what should be checked here ... but ideally, this listener should also be called if the app is launched with ACTION_MAIN.

With the Cordova com.lampa.startapp plugin, by default, when you launch another application, the intent will have ACTION_MAIN. When using the Cordova Custom-URL-scheme plugin in the launched app, this would call the app's handleOpenURL method. I would like to convert the launched app to Capacitor and use the Capacitor App plugin instead of the Cordova Custom-URL-scheme plugin. However, this doesn't work ... because the Capacitor plugin does not call the appUrlOpen listener when the app is launched with ACTION_MAIN. Unfortunately, it is not practical to change all of the apps that launch this app to always launch with ACTION_MAIN.

Code Reproduction

Other Technical Details

Additional Context

A simple fix for this would be to remove the check for ACTION_VIEW in the handleOnNewIntent method in App.java (or at least add a check for ACTION_MAIN as well as ACTION_VIEW

A workaround for this issue is to use the plugin cordova-plugin-customurlscheme in your capacitor app. See also: https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/Custom-URL-scheme/issues/332

[dchappelle]

I'm experiencing this problem using Capacitor v2 latest, any planned fix?