Using custom URLs within InAppBrowser

[alsocalledchris]

Trying to use InAppBrowser and get a URL that redirects to a custom URL (e.g. myapp://gotoThisLink) which if hit using a native browser opens the desired app as expected. However with InAppBrowser the URL fails in onLoadError method with 'unsupported URL' error message. Any ideas how to solve this with InAppBrowser? Thanks

[pichillilorenzo]

The plugin doesn't have an API for handling custom URL yet (such as WKURLSchemeHandler for iOS)!
However, did you try the shouldOverrideUrlLoading method (with useShouldOverrideUrlLoading option set to true) to capture your custom URL and, then, launch your App? I mean something like:

  @override
  void shouldOverrideUrlLoading(String url) {
    if (url.startsWith("myapp://gotoThisLink")) {
    // launch myapp here
    }
  }

To launch an App, you can use also my other plugin flutter_appavailability using the AppAvailability.launchApp(String uri) method.

[alsocalledchris]

cool thanks - I will give that a try

[alsocalledchris]

@pichillilorenzo tried to get the shouldOverrideUrlLoading working however the method is never called - even with the option useShouldOverrideUrlLoading set as required. Other overridden methods work fine, e.g. onLoadResource - it's just shouldOverrideUrlLoading that seems broken - any ideas?

This is using iOS and latest release v0.5.51.

[alsocalledchris]

Checking Android and shouldOverrideUrlLoading is working OK.

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