Make Sure Key Event Links Navigate In-Article

[JamieB-gu]

The key events links at the top of a liveblog or deadblog should be handled correctly by the apps such that they navigate to the block in the blog within the same webview.

Ensure that this behaviour is working as expected on both iOS and Android.

[DanielCliftonGuardian]

In the android simulator these links navigate to the DCAR version.
In IOS simulator they navigate to the DCR version.

[marjisound]

A summary of the navigation issue in the apps:
Using relative links has caused some issues on Android. When the blog page changes, the ad insertion mechanism doesn’t function correctly, likely due to the need for a WebView cleanup mechanism on page transitions.

Also, the back button isn’t retaining page history within the WebView, hence it takes the user out of the liveblog.

On the other hand, switching to full URLs to trigger the deep link handler has its own challenges. It appears to drop query parameters and URL fragments, so if we choose this approach, we’ll need to resolve the issue of missing parameters and fragments.

Approach to fix this
We had a session with ios & android today, and agreed that we can continue with the relative url approach but the android team needs to implement changes to support directly opening "next pages" in a new activity/fragment without going through deeplinks. However, it's not straightforward and they need some refactoring of how they open DCAR articles.

Action:
We need to negotiate with Naz and Alina on prioritising this work