Why is this one particular app on my Admob account showing a default icon, unlike my other apps, which have never done this before? Everything seems to be working fine for the app though on the Admob side of things (it shows no info in the pic above, but I know it works, because money has come in since then). I mean, I can collect money from the ads and everything, but for some reason it's just showing a default icon.
[Important Note: Also, I tried to create an Adwords app install campaign for the app in question, but the edit part where it actually shows you a visual example of the ad campaign before saving, wouldn't display itself (it just keep loading, but at the same time, it allowed me to go through the complete ad creation process successfully). I'm worried now about if my Adwords ads are even going to show up on user's phones, or will it do the same thing it did with me.]
Basically, how come there's a Admob (successfully linked) app icon problem, and why didn't the Adwords visual example of the ad load while editing?
Thanks in advance,
A Man, With A Question
Go to App
Select the app you want to show icon
App Settings
See App name & store link
Click on Pencil icon
Link your app with Google Play
Now enter your app name, app ID or developer name > Search and then click on Search button, icon will be link your app.
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iOS has a universal link capability (https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/General/Conceptual/AppSearch/UniversalLinks.html).
However, it looks like there are couple of ways to "disassociate" a link from the application:
Press and hold on a link and choose "Open in Safari"
There was a tiny link in the top right corner of the app, which was shown right after opening universal link (it looks like it's gone in iOS 11).
As soon as you did one of these actions then universal link will be opened in Safari (until you reassociate it back to the app).
The issue is that if a user end up in this state, it's not clear what he/she should do. I want to provide an explanation on the web page which will be opened in Safari.
However, I want to distinguish two cases:
A link is clicked on a device without the app: Tell a user to download the app
A link is clicked on a device where the app is installed and it's disassociated. Tell a user how to associate it back.
Is there a way to check whether universal link is registered from a page opened in Safari?
Yes, you are correct that iOS 11 took away the upper-right hand corner button to re-enable universal links. They have kept the banner that shows up when you scroll the page up slightly.
This banner acts will also re-enable Universal Links for the user.
Unfortunately, there is no perfect solution to determining if a user has the app installed, but there are a few ways to attempt to deduce whether the user has the app installed already. Branch has ways of deducing whether the user has the app installed and attempting to open it with a URI scheme. You can read about the $uri_redirect_mode in the docs.
It would be very difficult to build this deducing method on your own and I'm not entirely sure how it's done, so I recommend using Branch's solution.
I currently complement my web application by using URL Schemes to launch my native application. Starting with iOS 9 my users now get challenged with a popup that says "Open in app name". I have figured how to eliminate this by using Universal Links using a different domain then the app I'm launching from but have encountered an issue.
Key points
App is distributed outside of the app store as an Enterprise Distribution. So if I understand correctly smart app banners do not apply.
In case my app is not installed, my universal link web location hosts a page on how to install it.
If a user launches the app but does not have it installed they properly get my install page
Once in the app if the user presses the domain link at the top right they will not be able to launch the app again
The problem Im encountering is that if a user ever presses on the link/bread crumb at top right the app will not launch anymore. It will always direct the user to the install page. I know if I pull down on this page there is an open button that will take me to the app, or if I long press on my link I can also have it launch my app. However, I will not be able to get my users to understand this.
Is there a way to turn off the link on the top right?
We have a sneaker marketplace app and when people type in "sneaker marketplace" on the iPhone, our app shows up along 2 other apps. The icon is missing though (we're the first app below).
How do I tell Google which icon to use? Where does google get this information from? Why isn't my icon showing up?
If Chrome's app and Twitter's app are having this issue, then I would guess that it's not your fault.
I couldn't find a pattern among other apps that have this bug in Google's Mobile Search (Ratings on App Store, Image resolution, description content, etc) that might break whatever is scraping your app icon from the App Store.
It might be a combination of things.
I think I already know the answer to this ("can't be done"), but I figured I'd see what people think...
On my client's website they're posting files for download that specifically need to be viewed on iPads using the Cadwork Viewer app:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cadwork-viewer/id505161598?mt=8
You can't open the file on an iPad unless you have that app, and I'm wondering if when clicking on the file to initiate download if there's a way to scan the device to see if Cadwork Viewer is already installed. If so, proceed with the download of the file. If not, pop up a notice "This file requires the Cadwork Viewer app, download it here from iTunes." Something like that.
Again, I think this is just not doable, but hey...there's all sorts of things I don't know!
Thoughts?
Check out this link: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/PromotingAppswithAppBanners/PromotingAppswithAppBanners.html
You can add a banner to the mobile site that lets you open the app from Safari.
Explanation from Apple:
If the app is already installed on a user's device, the banner
intelligently changes its action, and tapping the banner will simply
open the app. If the user doesn’t have your app on his device, tapping
on the banner will take him to the app’s entry in the App Store.
This should be a good starting place.
I am using SSO in my application, and I see my application in Facebook for iPhone "Apps" section, and when tapping on it it launches my app. This is normal and works perfectly. Now, when I use a feed dialog on my App to publish a feed story, I do not see the App Attribution next to the "via APP_NAME" like I should. I also marked my app as "SSO enabled" in the apps settings.
Do you have any idea why it's not showing up the little icon to launch my app on the iOS device?
Thanks a lot
After facing the same issue i finally got it to work. You need to make sure that in your facebook app settings you have set the "app namespace" under the "Basic Info" section. After I've set it, it took several minutes to propagate throughout their servers but then it worked for all the stories published by the app.