Deep linking in Android not working if the app is in the background

Is this a bug report?

Yes

Have you read the Contributing Guidelines?

Yes

Environment

Environment: OS: macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 Node: 9.0.0 Yarn: 1.3.2 npm: 5.5.1 Watchman: 4.9.0 Xcode: Xcode 9.2 Build version 9C40b Android Studio: 3.0 AI-171.4443003

Packages: (wanted => installed) react: 16.2.0 => 16.2.0 react-native: 0.52.1 => 0.52.1

Target Platform: Android 4.0.0 or higher. iOS works fine.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Add Linking.addEventListener to componentDidMount, with alert callback, just to check if it works;
2. Put the app in background;
3. Open a deep link.

Expected Behavior

Fire the callback handler specified in the addEventListener function.

Actual Behavior

The callback function simply doesn’t get fired. The getInitialURL() works as expected (alerts the correct URL in this case, when the app is launched from the deep link click). This issue happens only on iOS, Android works fine.

It looks like that the callback event listener function is not getting fired.

Reproducible Demo

AndroidManifest.xml

<activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:launchMode="singleTask"
>

index.js

import React, { PureComponent, AppRegistry, View, Linking } from 'react-native'

class Root extends PureComponent {
  componentDidMount() {
    Linking.getInitialURL().then(alert)
    Linking.addEventListener('url', alert)
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <View />
    )
  }
}

AppRegistry.registerComponent('linkingtestapp', () => Root)

[Udbhav12]

I have the same issue in iOS @GopiKrishna10 - How did you solve this for iOS ?

[tajammul1996]

Did anyone found the solution for this?