Android - Adding at least one Activity with an ACTION-VIEW intent-filter after Updating SDK version 23

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I am getting the following tool tip in AndroidManifest xml   App is not indexable by Google Search  consider adding at least one Activity with an ACTION-VIEW intent-filler  See issue explanation for more details  Adds deep links to get your app into the Google index  to get installs and traffic to your app from Google Search    Can anyone explain why it is so

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You can remove the warning by adding the below code in  lt intent-filter gt  inside  lt activity gt    lt action android name  android intent action VIEW    gt

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From official documentation       To enable Google to crawl your app content and allow users to enter your app from search results  you must add intent filters for the relevant activities in your app manifest  These intent filters allow deep linking to the content in any of your activities  For example  the user might click on a deep link to view a page within a shopping app that describes a product offering that the user is searching for     Using this link Enabling Deep Links for App Content you ll see how to use it   And using this Test Your App Indexing Implementation how to test it      The following XML snippet shows how you might specify an intent filter   in your manifest for deep linking     lt activity     android name  com example android GizmosActivity      android label   string title gizmos   gt       lt intent-filter android label   string filter title viewgizmos  gt           lt action android name  android intent action VIEW    gt           lt category android name  android intent category DEFAULT    gt           lt category android name  android intent category BROWSABLE    gt           lt  -- Accepts URIs that begin with  http   www example com gizmos    -- gt           lt data android scheme  http                android host  www example com                android pathPrefix   gizmos    gt           lt  -- note that the leading     is required for pathPrefix-- gt           lt  -- Accepts URIs that begin with  example   gizmos    -- gt           lt data android scheme  example                android host  gizmos    gt        lt  intent-filter gt   lt  activity gt       To test via Android Debug Bridge     adb shell am start         -W -a android intent action VIEW         -d  lt URI gt   lt PACKAGE gt     adb shell am start         -W -a android intent action VIEW         -d  example   gizmos  com example android

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lt manifest xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  xmlns tools  http   schemas android com tools  package  com example app  tools ignore  GoogleAppIndexingWarning  gt    You can remove the warning by adding xmlns tools  http   schemas android com tools  and tools ignore  GoogleAppIndexingWarning  to the  lt manifest gt  tag

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Adding this intent filter to one of the activities declared in app manifest fixed this for me    lt activity     android name   MyActivity      android screenOrientation  portrait      android label   string app name  gt        lt intent-filter gt           lt action android name  android intent action VIEW    gt        lt  intent-filter gt    lt  activity gt

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this solution work only  if your want to ignore this Warning    lt manifest xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      xmlns tools  http   schemas android com tools      tools ignore  GoogleAppIndexingWarning      package  com example saloononlinesolution  gt

[android] Android - Adding at least one Activity with an ACTION-VIEW intent-filter after Updating SDK version 23

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