How to Open an iOS App using Firebase Dynamic Links and Pass or get Parameters To an App Via Custom URL Scheme in iOS(swift)?
for eg :- https://q3tyj.app.goo.gl/abcd
My URL Scheme is ‘q3tyj.app.goo.gl’ in iOS app in Url Types.
If I type q3tyj.app.goo.gl in safari, I am able to open the application. But if I type q3tyj.app.goo.gl with some extra parameter like https://q3tyj.app.goo.gl/abcd in safari, , I am not able to open the application.
please also explain me how to get “link” parameter (which associated with dynamic link) from dynamic link in iOS app ( Swift ) .
I followed steps which were mentioned in Firebase.google.com for iOS ( Swift ).but its not working.
Thanks,
Nirav Virpara
It's hard to know exactly where your error is, but a few things to help you debug:
If you go to https://q3tyj.app.goo.gl/apple-app-site-association, you should see some JSON that points to your app. If you don't see this, make sure you've entered your team ID and your App Store ID in the project settings in the Firebase console
Make sure you're using your Bundle ID, not the shortlink domain, as your custom URL scheme in Xcode
Make sure you've enabled Associated Domains in the Capabilities tab of your Xcode project, and your domain looks like applinks:q3tyj.app.goo.gl
Universal Links (and, therefore, Dynamic Links) generally don't work if you type them directly into the Safari address bar. Instead, try typing the URL into an app like Notes and then clicking on them from there.
Good luck!
If you type https://q3tyj.app.goo.gl/apple-app-site-association this link in your browser and check, you will end up seeing a json, meaning your apple-app-site-association is correctly configured on your google website. However, you need to make sure that teamid in your google console or appid is correct.
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You are attempting to register your app for the URI scheme https which Apple has already reserved for Safari, therefore you will not be able to use it.
Option 1: Custom URI Scheme
You must come up with a custom URI scheme like customURI://www.domain.com
Downside: If a user clicks on this link without the app installed. iOS will show that user and error.
Option 2:Universal Links
Apple launched Universal Links in iOS 9 to enable developers to associate their http link with their app. This requires you to host your own AASA file on your domain so that your domain becomes associated with your app ID.
Option 3: Branch.io
Branch will actually bundle up Universal Links and URI schemes and use them appropriately when necessary. They also perform deferred deep linking. They'll host your AASA file for you, but your app domain will have to be either https://*.app.link or some dedicated subdomain of a domain that you own.
only to be precise:
If you need more docs about in Apple docs, use the CORRECT name for the technology.
If You use url starting with a schema different from http (for example fb:// for FB) is not a LINK, is a "custom" url.
Anyway use: custom url and see at:
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneOSProgrammingGuide/Inter-AppCommunication/Inter-AppCommunication.html
I've found two options to open my app from a Safari web page: a custom URL scheme created in my app project's Info.plist or Apple's Universal Linking. Obviously the custom URL scheme is the easiest one to set up, but the problem I'm having with this is that Safari shows a confirmation window asking "Open myapp?" first and the user has to tap OK before the app actually opens. I want my app to open automatically as the scheme is opened, and I'm being told the only way to do this is through Universal Linking (please correct me if this is not true). If this is true, however, I would like to know if it's possible in any way to put the required apple-app-site-association file on a http:// domain instead of https://? According the official Apple documentation the format of a correct Universal Link starts explicitly with https:// but my domain name can't be loaded on https:// without redirecting a few times and that messes up the web services I've written to execute other tasks in my app. The two main questions I'm left with after this issue:
1) Is it really impossible to work around the confirmation prompt using a custom URL scheme (myscheme://)? If it's not impossible, how can I do this?
2) If I have to use Apple Universal Linking, can I use a http:// domain? If so, how do I do it? Right now if I load up the universal link, it just shows the dictionary inside the apple-app-site-association file, which I'm pretty sure is not supposed to happen. I'm told it's supposed to send a NSUserActivity object to my app delegate. How can I accomplish this with a http:// link?
It is not possible to trigger a custom URI scheme without showing an alert to the user. This used to be possible in iOS 8, but iOS 9 started showing the alert for all apps. And iOS 10.3 has extended that even to the App Store itself. You cannot bypass this. Universal Links were created to replace URI schemes for this behavior, so you do need to use them instead.
From your description, I believe you may be misunderstanding how Universal Links work. To answer the literal questions you asked first, no the Universal Link URL itself does not need to be on the https:// protocol, and yes, the apple-app-site-association must be served over https:// without redirects.
However, it sounds like you're trying to serve the content of the apple-app-site-association file for every Universal Link. That is not the correct implementation — the AASA file is hosted only at https://example.com/apple-app-site-association, and iOS automatically retrieves it when the app is installed. After that, any URL on example.com that matches the criteria in the AASA file will be eligible for Universal Links.
All of that said, you really don't want to built out this system on your own. I suggest looking into Firebase Dynamic Links or Branch.io (full disclosure: I'm on the Branch team).
Is it really impossible to work around the confirmation prompt using a custom URL scheme (myscheme://)? If it's not impossible, how can I do this?
That is possible with some hacky tricks and BAD user experience. It requires user to press "add to home screen" button, so I don't recommend this solution in most cases.
set your app scheme like myapp
create the following html file and put it into the web
window.onload = function() {
if (("standalone" in window.navigator) && window.navigator.standalone) {
window.location.href = 'myapp://open'
}
}
open the html file with safari and "add to home screen"
open the home screen icon and your native app will launch
The point is the meta tag.
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />
Without this, safari will launch and confirmation prompt will appear.
I was just about to link an app to a domain using universal links (or also refered to as associated domains; available since iOS 9). So far everything worked out and while testing with Safari I was able to open my app correctly, also parse path and query parameters of any URL.
But when I opened an URL that worked before with Safari from inside iMessage or Mail it failed.
I found out that when opening an app that way each query parameter gets reformatted to lowercase characters, which is invalid towards my data handling.
For example
https://www.example.com/path?paramNameOne=ValueOne¶mNameTwo=ValueTwo
is altered to
https://www.example.com/path?paramnameone=valueone¶mnametwo=valuetwo
So question is if there is a detail with this technology that I'm not aware of or - in case of a known bug - a propper strategy to cope with this issue.
Universal linking does not accept font formatting. Remove styling from your link and check
Hi I have a requirement in my app. From my ios Application(myapp),i share a link to facebook. Then I opened up my facebook account in browser or Facebook application and clicked the link, link should open in myapp if myapp is installed in the device otherwise link should open in browser. How can I achieve this ? Please suggest me step by step. Thanks in advance for your consideration and help.
I am not sure if this is possible. I have looked at various questions including
Is it possible to register a http+domain-based URL Scheme for iPhone apps, like YouTube and Maps?
as I am sure you might have already done but these questions target their own app, mainly web app, but you want that behavior to occur from an app that is not yours like twitter or facebook. But what you can do is show them two links on facebook/twitter, if they have installed press link 1 and if they want to install, press link 2 and you can pass parameters in link 1 as you might already know.
I will also keep checking answer of this question if some one comes and gives a better solution.
There is an option called custom URL scheme in iOS. It will help you to create a URL scheme which identifies your application. You can post link with this URL scheme and when you tap on this link on your iOS device it will open up your mobile app. Please see the link below to know how to setup this.
Custom URL Scheme in iOS
This is called 'deep URL linking'. Facebook have built a service called 'App Links', which seems pretty cool.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/ios/app-links
Is it possible for a web app to make use of the box:// url-scheme with parameters to open a specific file in the Box iOS app?
The Android Box app has a similar function with its intent links.
And if it is possible, what would these parameters be? (already using Oauth2 API to list files with shared links).
boxopendirect://file?id=<fileid> to redirect to a file.
boxopendirect://folder?id=<folderid> to redirect to a folder
It certainly is possible to open other apps from inside a webapp using a proprietary scheme identifier. Unfortunately, you will need to know the exact scheme syntax in advance. There's a good list of them available here:
http://wiki.akosma.com/IPhone_URL_Schemes
For example, to open the youtube app directly, you can use:
youtube://