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> I recently found this happening with Twitter's Android app. The user sees a link to player.fm and thinks it will open the native Player FM app if they have it
by stormbrew 12y ago
> I recently found this happening with Twitter's Android app. The user sees a link to player.fm and thinks it will open the native Player FM app if they have it installed, since it's registered to handle that URL pattern. But instead, the OS offers web browsers and Twitter as ways to open the link, because it's not really a player.fm link as presented to the user, but a t.co link. If the user then chooses a browser, the browser immediately redirects to the correct URL, which then pulls up the intents menu again.
You don't even have to go that far. Just click on a youtube link. First it'll ask if you want the www.youtube.com url to play in a browser or the app (which sucks), then it'll redirect to m.youtube.com and ask you again.
Only reason I haven't set it as my permanent choice is because I still hold out some shred of hope that the youtube app will be able to play an entire video without stopping for 2 seconds every 3 some day in the future.