app.js

if ('cordova' in window) {
  // Create a sticky event for handling the app being opened via a custom URL
  cordova.addStickyDocumentEventHandler('handleopenurl');
}

function handleOpenURL (url) {
  cordova.fireDocumentEvent('handleopenurl', { url: url });
};

What I ended up with are something like this

(function() {
  var app = angular.module('mycoolapp', []);

  app.run(['$window', function($window) {
    // Subscribe to cold-start event
    document.addEventListener('handleurl', handleOpen, false);

    // re-register event handler
    $window.handleOpenURL = function(url) {
      handleOpen({
        url: url
      });
    };

    function handleOpen(e) {
      handleExternalOpenURL(e.url);
    }
  });
})();


if ('cordova' in window) {
  // Create a sticky event for handling the app being opened via a custom URL
  cordova.addStickyDocumentEventHandler('handleurl');
}

function handleOpenURL (url) {
  cordova.fireDocumentEvent('handleurl', { url: url });
}

Just saw this! Glad it helped out. There were a few typos previously that I think might have been causing some issues 😞

@jonill @wedgybo Where is handleExternalOpenURL defined? And did you rename the event from handleopenurl to handleurl throughout your app?

Hi,

I couldn't get it working on cold start on android. handleOpenURL(url) didn't get called. I was testing push notification that contains a deep link. Here is the flow:

1. Receive push notification, click on it
2. App is launched
3. Landing page loaded. Didn't go to the page I specified in deep link.

I think it's because handleOpenURL() isn't there yet, when I click push notification?