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Deep Linking from Inside a WebView

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Deep Linking from Inside a WebView

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It would be useful for Deep Linking inside Rock Mobile to be compatible with contents inside of a WebView element. I have an app with several pages built on the web (due to the complexity of some of the functions in the project requirements), but because they are in a WebView, there is no way to command the mobile shell to execute anything from the pages in the WebView. I think that the flow could go something like this:

From the page in the WebView, send a deep link into the app to a specific page and pass information through a page parameter. The app could receive and open the deep link on the page and then execute lava or XAML depending on the needs. In my specific case, it would be something like the user taps on a Register button in the WebView -> the deep link opens on a page in the app and executes an OpenExternalBrowser command to the URL passed by the parameters.

This would allow for more interoperability between WebViews and the app shell in those situations where a web page is the better option.

Thanks!

Photo of James WilkinsonSubmitted by James Wilkinson, BEMA Software Services  ·   ·  Mobile
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