what's the "news://"? is it used?

[Petricabook]

Hi, everyone this is my first post.
while writing the text into my what's new session of the app I tried to insert a link (successfully), but i found that there was other types of prefixes. My question now is what is "news://"? what type of protocol is it an what is used to ?
thanks.
sorry for my english.

 

[joseph raphael]

Hi, everyone this is my first post.
while writing the text into my what's new session of the app I tried to insert a link (successfully), but i found that there was other types of prefixes. My question now is what is "news://"? what type of protocol is it an what is used to ?
thanks.
sorry for my english.

This is called Deep linking, it uses a unique name as link "news://" or "youmobile://" to open a specific link in the app. We have already discussed it on the forum HERE.

You can get more info about Android Deep linking here: https://developer.android.com/training/app-indexing/deep-linking.html

 

[joseph raphael]

Also to clarify more, @appyet currently doesn't support this feature.

 

[mobilemillionairesclub]

This is called Deep linking, it uses a unique name as link "news://" or "youmobile://" to open a specific link in the app. We have already discussed it on the forum HERE.

You can get more info about Android Deep linking here: https://developer.android.com/training/app-indexing/deep-linking.html

@joseph raphael What he refers is not deep link but adding url link on the html editing of what's new.

@Petricabook We usually only use http for links. news is for newsgroup which is much outdated or used.
Here's a link for newsgroup info. Anyone still using newsgroup?
http://www.newsgroups.com/usenetbrowser.html