Githawk: URL Schemes & Opener Support

Created on 24 Sep 2017 · 16Comments · Source: GitHawkApp/GitHawk

Opener is an iOS app which basically lets the user choose where to open links, basically takes advantage of URL schemes.

We should add support for basic URL schemes to deeplink to certain UI within the app. Namely:

freetime://issue/rnystrom/GitHawk/418 would go to this issue!
freetime://repository/rnystrom/GitHawk
freetime://notifications

(Also aware that we may want to rename our URL Scheme??)

Once we add this feature, we should add our app to the Opener manifest. It's not a perfect solution, but it would be a nice companion app to start opening GitHub stuff in our app rather than Safari!

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Sherlouk

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Awesome, just tried this out and seems to work! I've got https://github.com/timonus/OpenerManifest/tree/githawk waiting in the wings for when this version of GitHawk makes it to the App Store.

timonus on 11 Nov 2018

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Also worth noting that this will go slightly hand-in-hand with any work on home screen widgets, apple watch stuff, etc hence why I've given it a mid priority and not low!

Sherlouk on 24 Sep 2017

I want to take a look at this soon :)

Eg. open repo or filing an issue in one

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BasThomas on 6 Jun 2018

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Would happily integrate into Opener once there’s a URL scheme 😊

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timonus on 18 Jul 2018

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URL scheme architecture is on my mind for the next release!

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rnystrom on 19 Jul 2018

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Somebody could take a look at this now we have routing in place :)

BasThomas on 16 Oct 2018

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I plan to link to repositories and issues in GitHawk as soon as the App Store version of GitHawk supports this.

palmin on 30 Oct 2018

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@rnystrom: Is there anything I can do to assist?

I'm not sure if the url format representing routes is going to change and I'm also not able to tell if the app currently looks at URL's when launched.

But if you give me some specific tasks I can move this forward.

palmin on 7 Nov 2018

@palmin the App Store version should be able to handle deep links now using the route scheme in GitHawkRoutes

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rnystrom on 7 Nov 2018

@rnystrom I would expect
freetime://RepoRoute?owner=GitHawkApp&branch=master&repo=GitHawk
to open the overview screen for GitHawk but it opens the app without going to any particular screen.

Am I misunderstanding how these deep links are supposed to work?

palmin on 7 Nov 2018

Hmm no that should be right. Let me fire up a sample app to try and debug

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rnystrom on 8 Nov 2018

Awesome, just tried this out and seems to work! I've got https://github.com/timonus/OpenerManifest/tree/githawk waiting in the wings for when this version of GitHawk makes it to the App Store.

timonus on 11 Nov 2018

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