Contact method - mWeb opens when click on unlink link from the email

[izarutskaya]

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Found when validating PR : #36850

Version Number: 1.4.45-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: Applause-Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Open New Expensify app.
2. Add a new unverified contact method
3. Log out
4. Log in with the unverified contact method
5. Press Unlink
6. Open the unlink link from the email

Expected Result:

When I open the unlink link from the email I must be redirect to New Expensify app.

Actual Result:

But when I click on unlink link from the email opens in mWeb, not New Expensify app.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6396818_1709203913863.Screenrecorder-2024-02-29-10-03-07-891.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

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

[izarutskaya]

@CortneyOfstad I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors.

[CortneyOfstad]

@izarutskaya I am going to be honest, I find the expected result and actual result details very confusing. Can you please clarify those in the original comment, so I can review?

Thanks!

[melvin-bot]

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

[CortneyOfstad]

Hi @stephanieelliott! I am heading OoO (back March 11th), so reassigned to keep this moving. At this stage, we're waiting on @izarutskaya to clarify on the Expected and Actual outcomes since the OG comment wasn't super clear. Thanks!

[izarutskaya]

Hello @CortneyOfstad ! Sorry for the confusion, I corrected expected, actual results. Thanks

[bernhardoj]

Proposal

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

Pressing an unlink login path from an email doesn't redirect user to the installed app.

What is the root cause of that problem?

The app didn't recognize the unlink login path because we didn't register it to be recognized as a deep link.

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

We should register unlink login path in both AndroidManifest

<data android:scheme="https" android:host="staging.new.expensify.com" android:pathPrefix="/u"/>
...
<data android:scheme="https" android:host="staging.new.expensify.com" android:pathPrefix="/u"/>

and apple-app-site-association.

{
    "/": "/u/*",
    "comment": "Unlink login"
},