I am building an Ionic 2/3 application utilizing Ionic's deep linking plugin. The complete solution utilizes SMS to send an alert to the device. The SMS message contains a deep link url, like myapp://0123456789acrazylongid. The native Andorid SMS application reads part of the content as a phone number. My understanding of how this should work is that by specifying the schema in the config.xml as seen here.
<plugin name="ionic-plugin-deeplinks" spec="^1.0.15">
<variable name="URL_SCHEME" value="myapp" />
<variable name="DEEPLINK_SCHEME" value="https" />
<variable name="DEEPLINK_HOST" value="app.mysample.com" />
</plugin>
The application should be registered with the device and then all applications running on the device would know about myapp://. This does appear to work as I expect with iOS, just not Android. I have reviewed all of the documentation available from Google - Handling Android App Links.
I would appreciate any guidance possible.