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Felipe Erias edited this page Sep 16, 2023 · 2 revisions

Supported launch parameters

Wolvic supports the following launch parameters:

  • "url": the webpage to open
    • alternatively, this can be provided as the Intent's data URI
  • "background": if true, the URL will open in the background (default false)
  • "create_new_window": if true, the URL will open in a new window (default false)
  • "kiosk": if true, Wolvic will open in kiosk mode (default false)

Launching the main activity

The first way to open Wolvic from other apps or from the command line is to launch the main activity directly.

From the command line:

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN com.igalia.wolvic/.VRBrowserActivity

A data URI can be added to open a particular website:

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.MAIN -d "https://moonrider.xyz" com.igalia.wolvic/.VRBrowserActivity

This strategy works well for a single device, however it is not always portable across devices because Wolvic might be using different app IDs.

Launching a wolvic:// URI

The second way to open Wolvic is to launch a VIEW intent for a data URI that begins with wolvic://com.igalia.wolvic/:

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "wolvic://com.igalia.wolvic/"

Additional arguments, including the target URL, can be added as parameters to that URI:

wolvic://com.igalia.wolvic/?url=moonrider.xyz

And the corresponding ADB command would be:

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "wolvic://com.igalia.wolvic/\?url=moonrider.xyz"

More than one parameter may be appended to the data URI, for example this command will open a particular webpage in kiosk mode:

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "wolvic://com.igalia.wolvic/\?kiosk=true\&url=moonrider.xyz"

Remember that URI parameters need to be escaped, so to open a complex URL like http://localhost:8080 we would need to use something like this:

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "wolvic://com.igalia.wolvic/\?url=http\:\/\/localhost\:8080"

Alternatively, we could use HTML escape codes to achieve the same effect:

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d "wolvic://com.igalia.wolvic/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A8080"
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