My React Native app supports deep linking to a specific screen, so when a user clicks on an app link the phone will ask if the user wants to open the app, or at least that's what should happen.
The link looks something like this:
myapp://event/very-nice-event-1
But when sharing this link through an email, Messenger, Signal, etc. it's not clickable, just shown as regular text.
How do I go about sharing a deep link into an app?
That's because many applications does not support all links because of safety reasons, in fact, only very few supports native deep links. For your deep links to work everywhere you would need to implement "Universal linking", which will be a http:// or https:// link. It's slightly more complicated but both IOS and Android has very well written documentation about the topic.
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I have to place a simple link to an app on a website. The app has 2 versions, ios and android, so I should put 2 links, one to itunes and the other to gplay. ok.
Is there a way to create a single link that will send the user to the proper store?
User Firebase Dynamic Links which are match for your scenario.
As per firebase documentation:
With Dynamic Links, your users get the best available experience for
the platform they open your link on. If a user opens a Dynamic Link on
iOS or Android, they can be taken directly to the linked content in
your native app. If a user opens the same Dynamic Link in a desktop
browser, they can be taken to the equivalent content on your website.
Source: https://firebase.google.com/docs/dynamic-links
Firebase dynamic links is one way. I would like to recommend Branch.io, they do the same but more efficiently and the links that are generated don't look like spam. I did a huge study comparing both and found Branch to be better.
One cool thing, they even handle desktop deep linking i.e. they enable users to send the app link as an SMS from a custom designed page that gets loaded if they click the link on a desktop machine.
For example, i have case in my flutter app when user can recover his password.
In that case user will receive link on e-mail, and i want by clicking on that link, my flutter app will open, and route to specific screen.
You'll want to view this from the perspective of: How do I open my iOS/Android app from a URL, ie. App Deep Linking.
They each have their own respective implementations:
android/app-links
apple/allowing_apps_and_websites_to_link_to_your_content
Or you can go with more comprehensive SDKs that are capable of doing both for you:
Firebase Dynamic Links
Branch.io Deep Linking
There is a nice plugin for this,
https://github.com/avioli/uni_links
it also has a detailed explanation on how you need to configure iOS and Android for it to work (which is the hardest part imho); another nice source of information is this blog post
So here , you must use a dynamic link.
The best solution is the use of Firebase Dynamic Links .
One of the advantages of Firebase Dynamic Links: Convert mobile web users to native app users
With Dynamic Links, you can seamlessly transition users from your
mobile website to the equivalent content within your app. And because
the links survive the app install process, even new users can pick up
where they left off on your mobile site without missing a beat.
Another solution is to switch to native solutions: Android and iOS.
You can use app_links, that supports Android App Links, Deep Links, iOs Universal Links and Custom URL schemes handler (desktop included) for Android, iOS, macOS, web and Windows.
Is there any way to add deep-linking in Instagram post/add, so that it will open the app instead of a browser (like facebook adds) if the app is installed. So far I have seen many posts on how to open Instagram from another app, but I need the reverse one.
Ads, yes. Posts, no.
Branch has a solution for this. Here's the blogpost about it. I suggest using Branch for deep linking as it will make your life much easier. Otherwise, I believe normal App Links should accomplish this for you if you just embed them in the ad.
I have an IONIC app. I want my users to share links with https:// or http://. Should open in my native app. If app not installed should ask me to install it from the play store.
I tried this https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/Custom-URL-scheme
But nothing happen when I click on https:// url. It still opening in my chrome browser. It should as me to open link in my app only.
I want exactly same explained here : https://paul.kinlan.me/deep-app-linking-on-android-and-chrome/
Eddy's plugin is specifically for a custom URI scheme. This is the myapp:// format you're seeing, and as you noted, it doesn't allow http:// or https:// links.
Paul works with the Chrome team, so his article is specifically about Chrome Intents. This is a nice standard, but only works on Chrome and isn't particularly useful if you want compatibility anywhere else.
The App Links standard is designed to solve this issue, but it's only supported on newer versions of Android.
Instead, what you need is hosted deep links. With this set up, your https:// URLs lead to webpages that redirect to your custom URI scheme, which opens the app and deep links your user. You can technically build it yourself, but most developers don't. Services like Branch.io (full disclosure: I'm on the Branch team) and Firebase Dynamic Links make the process much easier.
Here's a breakdown of the various deep linking options for Ionic: https://blog.branch.io/how-to-deep-link-in-cordova-phonegap-and-ionic/
So I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to deep link a user who does not have the app currently installed. Here's what I'm trying to do:
1) User clicks deep link on website in mobile browser.
2) User is taken to the app store to install the app
3) Once installed, the user is taken to the deep link to specific content within the app.
The closest thing I've found so far is with Android App Install Banners, but that's not exactly what I'm looking for. Is this even possible?
Here's a link with the Android App Install Banners near the bottom of the page: https://medium.com/#ageitgey/everything-you-need-to-know-about-implementing-ios-and-android-mobile-deep-linking-f4348b265b49#.evsxzudwj
What you are trying to accomplish is known as deferred deep linking.
Vanilla iOS does not support deferred deep linking at all. Android can do it with the Android Google Play referrer, but it is unreliable and doesn't work at all from Chrome (the most popular Android browser by far).
To do this, you'll likely want to investigate a (free) third-party service like Branch.io (full disclosure: I am on the Branch team) or Firebase Dynamic Links. The Branch platform abstracts all the technical details and edge cases away, so all you need to worry about is defining a set of key/value parameters (for example: articleID: story123) when you create a link. Branch makes sure those parameters are returned to you inside the app the first time it launches after the user clicks the link, whether or not the app was installed when the link was clicked. You can then use the values to route/customize however you wish.
For a full explanation of what is involved in building this yourself, try this blog post.