This can be somewhat emulated with Android's support for vendor-specific MIME types in intent-filters: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/data-e

This can be somewhat emulated with Android's support for vendor-specific MIME types in intent-filters: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/data-element.html#mime http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/data-elem... Last I recall, this is how YouTube works to open the app when you try to play it from the web player on a mobile device.