From 61fd4e4ce402ba7b4686b750ab24574594ff4b36 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lyubo Marinov <lmarinov@atlassian.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 13:27:00 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [RN] Fix passing url prop to Root and App components

---
 react/features/app/components/AbstractApp.js |  8 +++++---
 react/index.native.js                        | 10 ++++++----
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/react/features/app/components/AbstractApp.js b/react/features/app/components/AbstractApp.js
index 2f985aab1..699639d32 100644
--- a/react/features/app/components/AbstractApp.js
+++ b/react/features/app/components/AbstractApp.js
@@ -138,9 +138,11 @@ export class AbstractApp extends Component {
             });
         }
 
-        // Deal with URL changes
-        if (typeof nextProps.url !== 'undefined') {
-            this._openURL(nextProps.url || this._getDefaultURL());
+        // Deal with URL changes.
+        const { url } = nextProps;
+
+        if (this.props.url !== url) {
+            this._openURL(url || this._getDefaultURL());
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/react/index.native.js b/react/index.native.js
index 88a5c4e6e..3617bc399 100644
--- a/react/index.native.js
+++ b/react/index.native.js
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ class Root extends Component {
             url: this.props.url
         };
 
-        // Handle the URL the application was launched with, but props have
-        // precedence.
+        // Handle the URL, if any, with which the app was launched. But props
+        // have precedence.
         if (typeof this.props.url === 'undefined') {
             Linking.getInitialURL()
                 .then(url => this.setState({ url }))
@@ -79,8 +79,10 @@ class Root extends Component {
      *
      * @inheritdoc
      */
-    componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps) {
-        this.setState({ url: nextProps.url || null });
+    componentWillReceiveProps({ url }) {
+        if (this.props.url !== url) {
+            this.setState({ url: url || null });
+        }
     }
 
     /**