Why does the Giggity android app trigger a Jolla browser start instead of displaying a schedule? [released]

answered 2013-12-29 17:32:04 +0200

Bulder
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This is because some apps like to install additional stuff that is then defaulted to themselves. For example, Google Drive cannot open drive files in the app, but opens them in the browser. Were this default Android, the OS would catch the (for example) 'giggity://' link it uses for the command to the other module. Unfortunately SailfishOS doesn't catch them into the Alien-Dalvik, and instead handles them in the browser.

answered 2014-01-28 12:01:02 +0200

Dekkers
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I just talked to Wilmer, the developer of giggity. What giggity does is the following:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url),
                           this, ScheduleViewActivity.class);
intent.putExtra("PREFER_CACHED", !prefOnline);
if (sel != null)
    intent.putExtra("SELECTIONS", sel);
startActivity(intent);

It explicitely says the intent should be handled by the ScheduleViewActivity class, but somehow Alien Dalvik ends up opening the browser instead of the ScheduleViewActivity class. It looks like a bug in Alien Dalvik, but I currently don't have the time to investigate it further.