So, I just reverse engineered devRant Android app so that I can open devRant links directly with the app instead of browser.
A simple one line modification.
Hope it's added in the official one.

PS: I can upload that apk if someone needs! (Different signature ofc!)

Lol!

Please upload the apk

Aww yisss

Magïzhchi...happy

I have the source code of this app as well... Lol

@Hardy I could learn a lot from someone else's development

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By the way, could you also write a workaround for this as well?
https://www.devrant.io/rants/274164

change the ui with material design style.

@dfox we should have this feature.

@dfox
How's about making the devRant app a open source project and have the community contribute? The it would be truly an app "By devs, For Devs" 😉

I'll post the code in my github if only I won't have any licence issues after posting it in my github lol..

If it were open source I could work on making a solution rather than complaining about the nonexistence of one.

@GinjaNinja I can see it being a bit of a pain for the iOS version, I'm not sure how they are handling the code on that, but the Android version at least should be opensource. @dfox LISTEN TO THE SCREAMING MOB! WE ARE NEVER WRONG! AND DON'T YOU MAKE US TURN INTO AN ANGRY MOB!

Just tested, this is already a feature without your version. Click on a link to a rant from the app and it takes you to that rant in the app.

Wtf, why have you made this?

@Player2 lol I'm not that dumb to waste my time if that was already working. It didn't work with links shared via WhatsApp n all.....it wasn't implemented properly.....I've even shown the correction made -.- ....

@balamu96m weird. It works fine for me

Yup. Just checked. WhatsApp links work fine

@Player2 yeah wierd....I dunno, it doesn't work for me without this workaround.....

Thanks for posting this.

However, please do not post/install 3rd party apk's. You won't get updates and this really isn't the desired way to do this.

We're working on building this in-app and using this method doesn't work how we want it to. Right now the app doesn't allow more than one rant to be opened at a time making it annoying if you want to jump back and forth.

Also, I'm not that familiar with intent filters, but isn't this going to break a lot of functionality?

We only have a small subset of devRant links that can actually be opened in the app itself (ex. rant links) while many (cartoons, podcasts, etc.) need to be opened in the browser.

@dfox Sorry for that, even I don't wish to share unofficial apks......that's why I uploaded it on request.

That shouldn't break any functionality & that "pathPattern" attribute can be played with to suit our need, afaik.

Cheers!

Keep calm and trust @dfox and @trogus