Using UWP OnActivated with Unity

I'm trying to have my application open for a specific protocol. For this I set up the player settings for the protocol and when I open an URL the application gets started succesfully, so that part is fine.

However I'm at loss how to get the callback with the Url within Unity. I read about the OnActivated event that can be overridden in the VS project. But how can I add this functionality to my unity c# code, so that I don't have to manually edit the VS project for each build? Here https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/windowsstore-appcallbacks.html it is mentioned, that unity subscribes to most of the callbacks, also for Activated. However I have no idea how to subscribe to these now.

Any help or hints would be appreciated!

 

Thanks for the tip, I'm trying to get the arguments like this:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2.     private void Start()
3.     {
4.     UnityEngine.WSA.Application.windowActivated += Application_windowActivated;
5.     }
6.  
7.     private void Application_windowActivated(UnityEngine.WSA.WindowActivationState state)
8.     {
9.     Debug.LogError("Application_windowActivated - state: " + state);
10.     var arguments = UnityEngine.WSA.Application.arguments;
11.     Debug.LogError("Application_windowActivated - arguments: " + arguments);
12.     }
13.  

However the debug log shows the arguments to be empty:

Application_windowActivated - state: CodeActivated
(Filename: C:/buildslave/unity/build/artifacts/generated/Metro/runtime/DebugBindings.gen.cpp Line: 51)

Application_windowActivated - arguments:
(Filename: C:/buildslave/unity/build/artifacts/generated/Metro/runtime/DebugBindings.gen.cpp Line: 51)

The app gets activated via the given protocol, which I guess is indicated by the window activated state CodeActivated. So I thought the arguments should then contain the url, but they just are always empty.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

 

Hmm, so would I need to do this within the build visual studio project? Would I then to do this each time I built manually or is there a better way?

Is it the App.cs file in the build project in vs? Can't seem to find an App.xaml.cs and no OnActivated method in the whole project.

 

Okay, got it working with editing App.xaml.cs.Now I only would like to have that one line to call my class added automatically, as I want to use a automated build setup later. However now just building in the same folder with the changes being kept is fine. So thanks Aurimas-Cernius!

 

Hi there, I am wondering if i can also use deeplinking with d3d? I am using holotoolkit and have some dependencies there for d3d. Hints and help appreciated!

 

I meant how can I get the Url that started the app when I build with BuildType D3D instead of Xaml.
I figured out the solution, similar and thanks to the Xaml solution in this post:
In the generated App.cs I changed the following method:

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2.         private void ApplicationView_Activated(CoreApplicationView sender, IActivatedEventArgs args)
3.         {
4.  
5.             CoreWindow.GetForCurrentThread().Activate();
6.         }

to:

Code (CSharp):

1.         private void ApplicationView_Activated(CoreApplicationView sender, IActivatedEventArgs args)
2.         {
3.             switch (args.Kind)
4.             {
5.                 case ActivationKind.Protocol:
6.                     ProtocolActivatedEventArgs eventArgs = args as ProtocolActivatedEventArgs;
7.                     Your.Static.Field = eventArgs.Uri.AbsoluteUri;
8.                     break;
9.             }
10.             CoreWindow.GetForCurrentThread().Activate();
11.         }

 

@Tautvydas-Zilys This all works fine with .NET backend. But when I'm building for IL2CPP, How exactly can I call my function (defined in one of my unity scripts) in ApplicationView_Activated in App.cpp?

 

Hello all.

I'm not able to find the "App.xaml.cs" file in my project. I have the next build configuration in order to reduce the iteration time between builds since I'm testing some changes in the app.

1.- Does the "App.xaml.cs" is only generated with "XAML Project" type?
2.- where should I find the "App.xaml.cs" file?




Thanks in advance!!

 

Thank you!!

Too bad, my intend was to catch the "Close Event" in my desktop app, with the restricted capability "confirmAppClose" and in most of the UWP forums they suggest to modify the "App.xaml.cs" like this:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35056464/uwp-on-desktop-closed-by-top-x-button-no-event
or
https://blog.mzikmund.com/2018/09/app-close-confirmation-in-uwp/

So, there's no way to access to the "App.xaml.cs"?? I'm using 2019.15LTS I wouldn't like to downgrade my project.

 

Ok ok Thanks a lot, I'll work on that.