[HOLD for payment 2023-10-10] [$500] Android - Search page is not deeplinking to the mobile app

[izarutskaya]

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Action Performed:

1. Copy the url to our search page.
2. Paste it to the note, click on it.
3. Notice that it opens browser instead of the mobile app.

Expected Result:

It should open search page on mobile app

Actual Result:

It opens browser instead of the mobile app.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android / native
• Android / Chrome
• iOS / native
• iOS / Safari
• MacOS / Chrome / Safari
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: v1.3.70-5

Reproducible in staging?: Y

Reproducible in production?: Y

If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:

Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):

Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856

Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

RPReplay_Final1692068424.MP4

Record_2023-09-15-14-42-37.mp4

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:

Issue reported by: @hungvu193

Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1692068644809499

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @abekkala (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

[melvin-bot]

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Current assignee @abekkala is eligible for the External assigner, not assigning anyone new.

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Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @Ollyws (External)

[izarutskaya]

Proposal from @hungvu193

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

URL to search page is not deep linked to native app

What is the root cause of that problem?

Path prefix for the Search page is not added to the deeplinking config in our apple-app-site-association and AndroidManifest file which caused the issue.

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

We should add this config below to our apple-app-site-association components section here:

{"/": "/search/*",  "comment": "Search"} // Or just /search is enough, because we don't have params for search page.

And also update our AndroidManifest in here and here:

  <data android:scheme="https" android:host="[new.expensify.com](http://new.expensify.com/)" android:pathPrefix="/search"/>

 <data android:scheme="https" android:host="[staging.new.expensify.com](http://staging.new.expensify.com/)" android:pathPrefix="/search"/>

We can also setup this for other routes if we want (ie: /workspace)

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

N/A

Result

https://github.com/Expensify/App/assets/16502320/eaf5a607-1e29-4386-90fa-1382faaa244d

[abekkala]

@Ollyws have you had a moment to review the proposal?