Handling Deep Link Intents in Android Activities (appLinkData, pathSegments)

In Android development, deep link intent handling refers to the process of receiving and parsing an incoming Intent inside an Activity to respond to App Links — URLs that route users directly to specific in-app content. A developer retrieves the link via intent.data (the appLinkData) and then calls pathSegments on the URI to extract the individual parts of the URL path, enabling the app to identify which resource or screen to display. This pattern is commonly demonstrated in tutorials such as Add App Links to Android Apps to connect external URLs to native Android UI flows.