Advanced scenarios

Hooking into navigation for Master Detail pages

If your MainPage uses a MasterDetail page rather than a standard NavigationPage, you’ll need to utilise the Navigation property within the MasterDetail.Detail object.

await (MainPage as MasterDetailPage)?.Detail.Navigation.PushAsync(new ItemDetailPage());

A simple example of this can be found within the AppShortcutsPluginSamples repo.

Opening links in the same Android instance each time

If the app is backgrounded and a shortcut is tapped, your app may relaunch and re-initialized the App from scratch, wiping any existing navigation backstack. This is caused by the MainActivity recreating itself when coming in via the IntentFilter. To re-launch the app in the same instance that was backgrounded add the following property to the Activity attribute in your MainActivity

LaunchMode = LaunchMode.SingleTask

Thanks to KerosenoDev for raising this