App intercepts all windy.com links but ignores the ?lat,lon,zoom coordinates (iOS + Android)

Jonathan Bruno

When another app opens a windy.com map URL, the Windy app intercepts it and
opens at its last position instead of the coordinates in the URL.

Repro

Install the Windy app (iOS or Android).
From any third-party app, open https://www.windy.com/?46.5936,7.9086,11
Expected: map centred on 46.5936, 7.9086 at zoom 11.
Actual: the app opens at the previously viewed location.
The same URL in a desktop browser centres correctly.

The format is the documented one, and the web client parses it fine, so the
gap is app-side link handling. The old /lat/lon form behaves the same.

This affects every link, because the apps claim the whole domain:

iOS AASA: "appID": "8L2TN9C6ES.com.windytv.ios", "paths": ["*"]
Android assetlinks.json: com.windyty.android, handle_all_urls

So no windy.com URL can reach the web client from another app once Windy is
installed. Any third-party app linking to a coordinate is affected, and the
only workaround is forcing the link into an in-app browser.

Please have the apps parse the coordinate triple from incoming windy.com
URLs the way the web client does, or document a scheme that carries a
coordinate into the app.

Related, still unanswered: community.windy.com/topic/13687

Suty

@jonathan-bruno Hello, could you please provide more info about the used version of Windy.com (you can find this information at the bottom of the app menu)?