Appcelerator - How to add Universal Links support in iOS9 App - ios

Question

I want to allow my users to open our app (if installed, otherwise redirect to App Store App page), whenever user clicks web url of our website.
I found that Universal Links is a way to go for the said requirements from iOS-9 onward. I also know the points to be covered on Web server and Apple Developer portal.
The only question is How do I enable Associated Domains in Appcelerator Titanium app?
Thanks in advance for any clue or help.

Answer 1

We have working universal links for both ios + android on our production apps with this process (based off of AppC Handoff Sample App:
1) Add associated domains on Apple Dev Center to the app -> This will generate a new provisioning profile which you will want to use to build in Titanium.
2) You need to explicitly edit your Entitlments.plist file, usually this is auto generated by Ti. To get a copy of this file do the following:
a) Build app for device
b) Navigate to project\build\iphone
c) Find the generated Entitlments.plist file
3) Copy this file over to your project's root folder and add the following under the "dict" node:
<key>com.apple.developer.associated­domains</key>
<array>
<string>applinks:www.example.com</string>
</array>
This should create the necessary data to bind app to the correct website for linking.
4) Now to actually capture the deeplinking click + url you need to listen to the following event: Ti.App.iOS.continueactivity
ex:
Ti.App.iOS.addEventListener('continueactivity', function(e){
//Since this event can be fired from multiple cases
//we need to check if it was a deeplink that fired it
if(e.activityType === "NSUserActivityTypeBrowsingWeb"){
//Since it WAS from a deeplink, the event response contains some
//other useful data (see the docs link)
var deepLinkURL = e.webpageURL;
//From here you can navigate the app to a relevant page etc...
}
};
Sadly, this functionality was broken in sdk 5.X, it was fixed here: TIMOB-20220 (a one liner) but it won't be included in an official .GA sdk until 5.4.0 from what I hear (which is scheduled for release in June).
If you have further questions the Ti Slack group chat is a great place to ask as well (a whole bunch of active users).