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Geotab Drive <-> Activities on Kiosk with INTENT

chrischabotattrix-8212
Original Poster

We are currently working with a multi-app kiosk provider to replace our tablet's home screen. Our goal is to use icons to call specific activities via intents, such as geotabdrive://dvir, to bring portions of the Geotab Drive experience directly to the home screen.

 

It appears that because Geotab Drive uses the singleTask launch mode, the following issue occurs when the app is already running:

 

1. The kiosk provider fires geotabdrive://dvir as an intent.

2. Android brings the main activity to the foreground and clears the stack.

3. While the deep link path should be handled in onNewIntent, the internal web view router seems to reset to /main instead of navigating to the target.

 

Is there a recommended way to ensure deep links work correctly in this scenario?

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EishiFUN
Geotabber

Hey @chrischabotattrix-8212​  I talked with our team and looked into this a little more and it looks like there is no documented supported path for this today. This appears to be a gap that would need an engineering fix on our side. From what I understand this is on our radar to fix by the end of the year

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EishiFUN
Geotabber

Hello @chrischabotattrix-8212​ ,

 

Thank you for asking your question in our community. I wodner if this is anything @nschainblatt-1755​ or @TuckerBA-1087​  have any experience with this or any insight to share.

 

If they are busy or unsure I will find someone else who can help us with this one.

 

Have a good one!

Eishi FUN

Hey @EishiFUN​, unfortunately we haven't done anything like that so I won't be much help on this one. Sorry!

chrischabotattrix-8212
Original Poster

Thanks @TuckerBA-1087​ !

EishiFUN
Geotabber

Thanks for responding Tucker. I am asking around internally about it and I will let you know what I hear as soon as I do!

EishiFUN
Geotabber

Hey @chrischabotattrix-8212​  I talked with our team and looked into this a little more and it looks like there is no documented supported path for this today. This appears to be a gap that would need an engineering fix on our side. From what I understand this is on our radar to fix by the end of the year

chrischabotattrix-8212
Original Poster

@EishiFUN​ Thanks for the update, Eishi!

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