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Geotab Drive Android Deep Linking?

Good Day,

 

Curious to know if there is any developer documentation on Deep Linking to the Geotab Drive application? We have some use cases where separate driver apps may need to invoke Geotab Drive and launch to specific intents.

 

I've not been able to find any published documentation on deep links that exist in Geotab Drive. Would love any guidance on where to look to establish those links and be able to launch to specific screens externally for a smoother back and forth.

 

Thanks! Have a great day!

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The deep-linking URL scheme for Geotab Drive is documented and available here. It should accurately reflect options available in Geotab Drive 5.x and 6.01 on Android and iOS.

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RwIaVmQ6VEYF9BIMlM4Bp2zWP5ulDX5Xh4NVINPDYzA

 

Thanks,

Ken Wallen

Geotab Senior Solutions Engineering

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Hi @ScottApplefeldASRSolutions-1288​ ,

 

Welcome to the Geotab Community! Letting the SDK experts know you could use some help with this. 😊

 

If you have any more questions or details about the project to share, please do.

 

Warm Regards,

Genevieve

Thank you Genevieve!

 

We are one of the Eleos integrators, so we focus on empowering heavy truck customers with workflow and a customizable mobile app experience. For the most part, our users use the embedded Geotab drive experience Eleos created inside the app, by proxying through the https://my.geotab.com/drive interface.

 

However, we have some customers who have use cases where they might prefer to use the Geotab Drive app separately. The notifications are more prominent, it lets them make better use of native tools and add-ins, and they don't have to sign into Eleos (and get their Geotab password reset) for situations where they only want to log hours, or where they cannot log into Eleos.

 

What we'd like to do is create an experience that's similarly seamless for those use cases. So we could pull the hours into Eleos from the Geotab API easily, but we'd like to launch them straight to specific screens in Geotab Drive from Action buttons within Eleos. We can start any Deep Link, so my thought was that if Geotab Drive supported Deep Linking to specific intents, we could take them straight to the Asset Page, or straight to the Duty Status page, and so on, then they could resume using Eleos seamlessly when they back out.

 

Thanks for your guidance, and have a great day!

Hi @ScottApplefeldASRSolutions-1288​ !

 

Sounds like a user-friendly, operator-friendly integration and I hope we can get you the documentation you need, or at least get you pointed toward who can help. The team was not able to come up with a solution just yet, as nothing currently exists to share publicly. But I shared your additional details and will follow up on Monday.

 

Have a great weekend,

Genevieve

The deep-linking URL scheme for Geotab Drive is documented and available here. It should accurately reflect options available in Geotab Drive 5.x and 6.01 on Android and iOS.

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RwIaVmQ6VEYF9BIMlM4Bp2zWP5ulDX5Xh4NVINPDYzA

 

Thanks,

Ken Wallen

Geotab Senior Solutions Engineering

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