Launch from URL doesn't work on Android (when app is in background)

[kimberlysiva]

This seems to require an onNewIntent listener: NativeScript/NativeScript#2747

I've tried extending the com.tns.NativeScriptActivity as suggested in that post, but so far onNewIntent does not fire.

To be clear, the app currently resumes from a URL when the app in the background, but we are not catching the new intent to get the target url.

Be careful about trying to use an existing plugin, e.g. https://github.com/hypery2k/nativescript-urlhandler

On iOS, that plugin implements UIApplicationDelegate, but we also implement this for analytics, and there can only be one delegate.

[kimberlysiva]

As an update, I was able to create a custom Activity to catch the onNewIntent event by following this guide: https://docs.nativescript.org/runtimes/android/advanced-topics/extend-application-activity#extending-activity

However, this breaks nativescript's application.suspendEvent and application.resumeEvent, which we use in a few places. I've created a post regarding the issue here: https://discourse.nativescript.org/t/androidactivitycallbacks-onpause-onresume/1811

For now the progress is in the android-url-launch branch.

[kimberlysiva]

Note that some of this changes in nativescript 3.0: https://github.com/NativeScript/NativeScript/blob/master/Modules30Changes.md#application