Hi folks! Any references for deep links and local ...

# compose-desktop

[Anmol Verma]

Hi folks! Any references for deep links and local platform notifications with tap to navigate with a notification identifier ?

[Alex Styl]

there is an example of deep linking for mac os.

local platform notifications are very limited right now. seems like it’s just displaying a message and that’s it

[Anmol Verma]

thanks @Alex Styl For some reasons it was not working, it started working now 😬, I guess i was executing desktop:run and not desktop:runDistributable

[Alex Styl]

if you figure out how to do for windows, do share

[Anmol Verma]

There’s a flutter library which works for windows.. https://pub.dev/packages/uni_links_desktop

[Anmol Verma]

Ideally the native code should work for us too ?

[Anmol Verma]

I am planning to look into it this week.. macos and android was my priority for now

[Alex Styl]

are you saying that flutter libraries have native code?

[Alex Styl]

never looked into flutter

[Anmol Verma]

Yes they depend on platform code internally

[Anmol Verma]

https://github.com/leanflutter/uni_links_desktop/blob/main/windows/uni_links_desktop_plugin.cpp

[Anmol Verma]

https://github.com/leanflutter/uni_links_desktop/blob/main/lib/src/protocol_registrar_impl_windows.dart

[Anmol Verma]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/80650/how-do-i-register-a-custom-url-protocol-in-windows

[Anmol Verma]

this should help you! and me 🤞

[Anmol Verma]

The equivalent code should look like this, this should register your custom scheme on windows for deeplinking. Using: https://github.com/sarxos/win-registry

val reg: WindowsRegistry = WindowsRegistry.getInstance()
            val appExecutablePath = ProcessHandle.current()
    .info()
    .command()
    .orElseThrow();

            val protocolRegKey = "Software\\Classes\\slackclone"
            val protocolCmdRegKey = "shell\\open\\command"

            val regKeyUri = reg.createKey(HKey.HKCU, protocolRegKey);
            val regKeyShellCommand = reg.createKey(HKey.HKCU, protocolCmdRegKey)
            reg.writeStringValue(HKey.HKCU,protocolRegKey,"URL Protocol","")
            reg.writeStringValue(HKey.HKCU,protocolCmdRegKey,"","$appExecutablePath %1")

[Anmol Verma]

I don’t have a windows system so cant really test 😬 @Alex Styl

[mikehearn]

You'd have to remember to undo that at uninstall time, so normally you wouldn't write that in kotlin but delegate it to the packaging framework

[mikehearn]

e.g. in conveyor you'd write app.url-schemes = [ my-protocol ] and in other frameworks you'd manually edit the NSIS configuration, perhaps.

[Anmol Verma]

thanks for mentioning those important steps @mikehearn 🙂