Open Android application from SMS

Question

I am creating an Ionic 2/3 application using the Ionic deep binding plugin . The complete solution uses SMS to send an alert to the device. The SMS message contains the URL of the deep link, for example myapp: // 0123456789acrazylongid. The Andorid SMS native 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 file, as shown 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 must be registered on the device, and then all applications running on the device will know about myapp: //. This seems to work as I expect with iOS, not Android. I looked through all the documentation available from Google - Handling links to Android applications .

I would be grateful for any recommendations.