Mobile Development

The Egnyte mobile app is incredibly feature rich and a great place to learn about possible functionalities and good UX practices. Our Mobile Overview article provides a comprehensive understanding of our product offerings. Learn more about our mobile apps for each platform below:

Egnyte for Android         Egnyte for iOS         Egnyte for Windows

We always strive to meet the most stringent industry standards for good usability and security practices. If the Egnyte app has the feature that you need, why reinvent the wheel if you can simply hook up your cart to the wheel!? That’s why we we’ve created a way for you to deep link directly into our app from your own end point. Whether it’s native or web, you can seamlessly launch our Android or iOS App.

URL Scheme:

egnyte://<domain>.egnyte.com/openFolder?path=<path>

From your Android App:

To launch our mobile app, you can follow Android’s tutorial on to setup a URL-Scheme intent. Then simply create an ACTION_View intent to our URL-Scheme; this will trigger the Egnyte app. You can pass a folder path parameter, if you would like our app to open a specific folder. Our app will display an error if the end user does not have access to the folder, or if the folder was removed/moved.

Uri location = Uri.parse("egnyte://<domain>.egnyte.com/openFolder?path=<path>”);
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, location);
startActivity(intent);

From your iOS App:  

To launch our mobile app, you can follow iOS tutorial on how setup a URL-Scheme intent. Then simply insert our URL-Scheme to trigger our app. You can pass a folder path parameter, if you would like our app to open a specific folder. Our app will display an error if the end user does not have access to the folder, or if the folder was removed/moved. For more information, please refer to the Apple developer documentation.

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"egnyte://<domain>.egnyte.com/openFolder?path=<path>"]];

From your mobile website:

Simply create an href link with the URL scheme: egnyte:// to seamlessly launch our app.

<a href="egnyte://<domain>.egnyte.com/openFolder?path=<absolutePath>">Launch Egnyte App</a>

Feel free to reach out to us at mobilefeedback@egnyte.com if you have any questions or suggestions!