Currently is it possible to do a deep link on a Facebook share post? Here is the use case I'm trying to implement:
I go to a post on my website: http://www.helloworld.com/share-this-post.html and use FB share to share the link.
I open the iOS Facebook app on my phone and click on the link I just shared.
Then if I have the native HelloWorld iOS app installed on my phone, Facebook will open up my native app instead of opening the link in a webview. Else it will take me to the app store to download my native app.
Thanks!
I think the basic idea here is a URL Scheme that you need to create. When a user does the actions necessary to open your app send them to this URL -> which opens your app or takes them to the app store to purchase your app.
Do a quick google search on how to create a URL scheme, its quite simple.
Does this answer your question?
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I created a dynamic link on firebase dynamics like in their tutorial here
https://firebase.google.com/docs/dynamic-links/ios/receive
using an app ID (WhatsApp) which is not mine because not yet on App Store.
When i click on it (in Notes or Mail), it goes to Safari and ask if i want to open WhatsApp in AppStore.
When i come back to my app, i don't receive any link.
Do i need to publish my app to the appstore before it works?
You do not need to publish your App in AppStore in order to test the Firebase Dynamic Links.
Did you followed steps here https://firebase.google.com/docs/dynamic-links/ios/receive regarding Set up Firebase and the Dynamic Links SDK and Open Dynamic Links in your app?
Is your App receiving any link in UIApplicationDelegate's openURL: method? Can you reproduce the issue with quick-start App https://github.com/firebase/quickstart-ios/tree/master/dynamiclinks ?
Before iOS9, a Facebook post could successfully redirect an user to an installed app via short URL (like bet365://). Now, in iOS 9, bet365:// gives invalid link. From Safari it redirects fine, but not from Facebook browser. This is just an example, there are other apps that can't be opened from FB.
What do I need to do in order to open an installed iOS app from a Facebook post (in iOS9)?
PS: I understood that now, in iOS9, if Myapp1 wants to open Myapp2, it will need to populate info.plist with LSApplicationQueriesSchemes like this:
<key>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes</key>
<array>
<string>url_to_Myapp2</string>
</array>
but it's strage to belive that Facebook will have to do the same with the apps he wants to open.
Many thanks!
There are some changes you need to make in your plist and add a few urls to whitelist Facebook urls. Try adding all of them. It should work then.
Facebook iOS 9 integration
There are various ways you could go about achieving the same:
1. Use a platform like Branch or DeepLink.me
Use links generated by these platforms which will be opened in Safari and then redirected to your app.
2. Facebook App Links
This is the deeplinking solution provided by Facebook itself. Instead of generating static app url scheme links, you should generate applinks for sharing in Facebook. These can then redirect to your app or even the app store page if the app is not installed.
3. Support Universal Links in iOS 9
You can have iOS recognize universal links for your application. These will be in the form of http://yourWebsite/path/to/content and will result in your app being opened directly.
From the documentation:
Universal links let iOS 9 users open your app when they tap links to
your website within WKWebView and UIWebView views and Safari pages, in
addition to links that result in a call to openURL:, such as those
that occur in Mail, Messages, and other apps.
Have a look here on how to configure the same.
I would suggest configuring all of the above for your application, as it will provide various ways for you to direct users directly to your app, each suitable for certain situations.
In the iOS docs for Google App Invites, under Receiving Invitations, it is suggested that a deep link can be retrieved on first launch if the app wasn't installed in advance:
If the user has not yet installed the app, the user can choose to
install the app from the iTunes App Store. When the app opens for the
first time, the App Invites SDK will supply a deeplink if one is
available.
I've looked through the reference docs for GINInvite and GINReceivedInvite but I don't see any way to instantiate GINReceivedInvite outside of an application openURL call. Anybody know how to actually have the SDK retrieve the deep link in this scenario?
What you are trying I will say is not the correct way. You have to check in Safari web browser if app is install or not. If not navigate to App store
You can find your solution in here How to check if an app is installed from a web-page on an iPhone?
I have an application on IOS, which posts photos and location on facebook.
I want my app to open once user tap on link(When viewing facebook from facebook app). Is this possible?
It's not possible using the built in iOS sharing but Facebook will open your app if you are using their SDK and posting with a Facebook app. (as in an app setup in their developer portal) You need to have deep linking turned on and your app profile setup to point back to your app store id. They also have a new app links thing they announced which is worth checking out. In any case your app will have to support custom URL schemes.
Sorry I can not get clearly but if I am not wrong then do you want to open your iOS app when user click on link on FB ?
If I am right then simple and sort answer, it is not possible because apple iOS dose not provide any such types of feature/API so it is better to stop fighting.
I'm trying to integrate Facebook Share into my App. For that, I'm following this tutorial.
I can share something in Facebook, but I can't seem to make deep linking working. If I clicked in my share link in my wall, it won't open my native apps but it always open another tab in safari and open the link.
In the Apps detail Page in Facebook Apps, I've already checked Enable Deep Linking. But, because the apps isn't submitted to the app store yet, I left the iPhone App Store Id and iPad App Store Id to 0.
What is that I miss?