[$250] Android - Tapping on public room link from slack opens mweb

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 9.1.33-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: #60901
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): illa@gmail.com
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Launch app
2. From slack, tap on the public room link

Expected Result:

Tapping on public room link from slack must open app

Actual Result:

Tapping on public room link from slack opens mweb instead app

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Select the officially supported platforms where the issue was reproduced:

• Android: App
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: App
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• iOS: mWeb Chrome
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Platforms Tested:

On which of our officially supported platforms was this issue tested:

• Android: App
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: App
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• iOS: mWeb Chrome
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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Bug6816344_1745926871209.Screenrecorder-2025-04-29-17-06-57-856.mp4

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @jjcoffee

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @johncschuster (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[rohit9625]

Does the concierge link open the app? In my case, none of the deep links are working. It may be a device-specific issue.

Edit: I downloaded Expensify from the Google Play Store and all the deep links work well. But, it didn't for developmentDebug. Are there any other changes I need to test the behavior?

[melvin-bot]

@johncschuster Eep! 4 days overdue now. Issues have feelings too...

[johncschuster]

@lanitochka17 can you please copy the same link and paste it into a mobile browser and see if the behavior persists?

[johncschuster]

@lanitochka17 bump!

[lanitochka17]

@johncschuster Apparently it repro if you paste it into a browser.

0-02-01-83a70e64bcad9bd5682e8460c03b12a4468c1e61b31272412f3a012495a2c2e1_b0fcf69dc0e6cb6f.mp4

[rohit9625]

Hi @johncschuster, I think the deep links do not work for debug builds. If I want to test on a non-debug build then which variant should I build as deep links were working for the App downloaded from Google Play?