So, my team has been working on our Flutter app, trying to get a few of the deep links we created to open a website. And everything worked out fine...until we tried it on iOS devices. For iOS devices, the deep link behaves correctly only when typed out in the address bar, but when it's tapped on, be it in a TODO list, or through SMS messages, it takes you immediately to the installed app.
These behaviors, however, only occur for all URLs of the same host, for example:
https://foo.page.link/some-suffix
https://foo.page.link/baz/some-other-suffix
etc. you get the idea
Apparently, it's something to do with how iOS handle URL prefixes. This answer provides the best explanation and solutions I have found so far. However, these feel more like workarounds than solutions that would allow us to config our links like we did with Android. I'm asking here because the answer itself is almost two years old and there might already be simpler solutions out there.
These are the behaviors we defined for iOS and Android
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So I have implemented Firebase Dynamic Links in my app. I thought that I had them set up correctly, because they work for my own personal device and the simulators perfectly. I released the update to the app, but when two of my friends tried to open them after updating to the new version, it takes them to the Firebase website citing an error. I click the same link and it opens my app and handles the link.
Firebase has added the apple app site association to my domain prefix, I have added the a--link in my app's capabilities, I am truly at a loss as to why this may be. Even if they click the link from notes, it does not give them the option to open the link with my app like it will for me.
Is there anything that I could be overlooking? Happy to supply any relevant details but I feel like I have to be missing something.
App Links:
applinks:share.***.app
URL Type is set up in Target Info.
Custom Dynamic Domain is set in info.plist.
For others that come across this, it seems to be an open Apple bug: http://www.openradar.me/radar?id=4999496467480576
After several days, the user's apps downloaded the proper AASA and the deep links began to work. There doesn't seem to be a workaround with Google Dynamic Links, but Branch.io offers forced URI redirect mode to avoid this issue.
I have a cordova app which uses the AppAvailability Plugin (https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-appavailability) and I have to find out if a specific app is installed. Its easy on Android, since I just know the packagename, but on IOS I have to know the URI Scheme or the DeepLink (eg. myapp://).
But I just seems to not be able to find out how to get it. Example is the asos.com.au website and their app. The Package name is 'com.asos.app', so that part is solved.
But if you go on the website (or in my usecase, if you are forwarding to their website) it opens the app if is available. And if it is available I want to have my app know that it wont redirect to the website (this is actually pretty important).
So, on IOS I have to know this URI Scheme.
Any Ideas?
This sounds like asos.com has implemented deep linking, and indeed http://www.asos.com/apple-app-site-association is present and looks good. Find more documentation here: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/General/Conceptual/AppSearch/UniversalLinks.html
Shouldn't we be able to use Universal Links into Amazon on iOS? They are hosting this file: https://www.amazon.com/apple-app-site-association and this blog post seem to be certain of it. However, if I make a link that follows one of their site-association rules, such as
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062273205,
I keep getting directed to Safari instead of the app. I have never clicked Back to X from the Amazon app, so it can't be that cache that is messing with me.
Universal Links do work with the Amazon app on iOS. I tested the example (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062273205) on iOS 9.2.1, and it opened the app as expected.
Have you have scrolled all the way to the top of the Amazon page? There should be a banner like this that will forward you to the app. If not, I suppose it's conceivable that your copy of the Amazon app didn't correctly register for Universal Links when first installed. You could try deleting it and reinstalling.
I know this is an old question, however I did post an answer that seems to work currently which might help someone:
I too had mixed results with universal links, it worked on some devices and not on others even though the Amazon app is installed.
In summary, what I did was:
Using https://www.appsight.io/app/amazon I was able to get the URL Scheme for the amazon app
I whitelisted that URL scheme in my info.Plist
I added some code to check if I can open the amazon app using the scheme otherwise I should fallback to using Universal links
Exact code I used is available on my answer here.
My web application is making use of iFrame to launch a App using custom URL scheme.
With the latest release iOS 9 this has stopped working.
On going through articles online, I have some understanding now that Universal Links are way to go about it or else we can use below hack/code to still launch the app(this results in a alert message asking user to Open/Cancel the call, which doesn't look nice).
window.location = app://
Wanted to check with experienced people here, if there is any other possible way to resolve this as I am reluctant to change the app to support Universal Links for now.
I have run into several problems with iOS development through phonegap recently, and unusually people around here have been unable to discuss these issues and even together we have (for the first time I have ever seen) not had a single comment or answer for these topics...
See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14707936/make-a-page-that-redirects-back-to-ios-phonegap-app and iOS broswer data -> Cache & Cookie for Phonegap App / Session?...
However, I have found "solutions" to get around these, but its by no means answers to the issues in question which are still outstanding... just simply doing it a completely different way.
However, despite loosing web-view in phonegap, in an attempt to get around https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14707936/make-a-page-that-redirects-back-to-ios-phonegap-app I now have some issue that are outstanding...
I need to be able to navigate back to my App from the web-system !!!
However, I have no idea how. I have read info on creating URL Schema, but I am not sure if this is even possible through build.phonegap at all... and it seems faily complicated. Does anybody know of a way for iOS safari to do one of two things
Either
Open the app that is running in the background
or
close the current browser tab and navigate back to the app in the background.
The closing tab idea would be good, but not essential
Look forward to everyone thoughts and opinions on this one...
Henry
You can create an url scheme for any application you make yourself.
See tutorial here
It's not as terribly complicated as one would think, and the required objective-c code is minimal.
Once you have done this, you can use your own url scheme to launch your phonegap application from safari with a hyperlink.
This would not close the tab (you could do this with javascript if you wanted to)
but does put safari in the background, and opens your phonegap app.
(whether it is already running in the background or not)
It is even possible to pass data to the app using your url scheme.
It is not currently possible using PhoneGap Build in 2.2 and previous. Potentially a feature top be released in newer versions of Cordova/Phonegap