I'm trying to find an android mastodon app that can handle links from outside the app and open them in the app. Tusky is not going to implement this feature request and I haven't seen anything from the official app nor Fedilab.

It really feels like not being able to open mastodon links in an app is what's holding me back from using Mastodon more. I don't always find Mastodon content from within and is like to be able to interact with them more.

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What I could theoretically imagine, is that an extension could give it a custom URL scheme, like mastodon://mastodon.social/v1/..., and then the various Mastodon apps could register an intent/open handler for that. But yeah, again, quite a bit of effort.

Alternatively, the apps could offer a secondary Share-action, which tries to open the link instead of creating a post from it...

[–] GreatDong3000@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

That's a good idea