App indexing Android Activity

Question

I am trying to configure app indexing and running into issues with "Fetch". Below is what I have configured:

1. Added and verified the website and app /apk
2. Associated website and the apk / app.

3. Added following configuration under the activity tag in AndroidManifest.xml

   <data
       android:host="mywebsite.com"
       android:pathPrefix="/mypage"
       android:scheme="http" />
   <data
     android:host="mywebsite.com"
       android:pathPrefix="/mypage"
       android:scheme="http" />
   

On the fetch page - "android-app://package-name/" [already present / displayed on the page].

I entered the following on the text field - http://mywebsite.com/mypage, uploaded the debug apk (as the current version on google play doesn't have deep links). On verify, i get URL unsupported error. This is baffling me as I am following the exact steps mentioned in support / tutorial links.

Also, i noticed that the path displayed is not correct, this is what I see is /http:/mywebsite.com/mypage.

Please help, its been days since I am trying to resolve this.. have gone thru all the links several times but no luck.

Regards

Answer 1

You have to enter your URL in a different format. Required format for deep-linking is:

android-app://your.app.package.name/schema/host/path

In your case, you would use:

android-app://your.app.package.name/http/mywebsite.com/mypage

In "Fetch as Google" screen, you already have first part completed, so you only need to enter the following in the text field:

http/mywebsite.com/mypage

I also noticed that you are using the same data element twice in your intent-filter, so you can remove one.