There is an application that I have developed in iOS and Android.
A Facebook Share is done from within the application, and appears on the user's news feed.
I want to link the news feed with the respective links in Android play store, and iOS app store. Based on the user's device the appropriate link be shown.
Is this possible ? Deep linking, does not seem to solve this problem.
Example:
From the android/iOS application, app-user Shares "I just used this
awesome app".
It appears on his friends' news feed with this link pointed
SOMEWHERE.
I want to point this SOMEWHERE to the Android play store/iOS app store, depending on the device, from which user is ccessing facebook.
If the user is an iPhone user, the news feed link would point it to the APP STORE,
else if he is Android user, he is shown Play Store.
it definitely is possible but you will have to use the facebook sdk:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/howtos/androidsdk/3.0/link-to-your-native-app/
hope this helps
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I was just thinking... can I make an android and apple app that just installs the icon on the phone, and opening it redirects to the browser?
My app will be a web app, practically the mobile/responsive version of a website, and to have an app I'll have to fight with android studio to be able to get push notifications, the user's location, to be able to upload a file, etc. etc, and same for apple...
All things that I can do in a very simple way using a bit of javascript and a bit of html...
I only need android and apple because it's cool to have the icon on your phone, and to be found on the play store and apple store, for everything else they're just annoyances...
So, can I make a simple dumb app that just does a redirect and opens my website in a browser? And will they allow me to upload it in play store and apple store?
I have the following link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.chrome
If I open this link on an Android device, the Google Play Store app gets opened and shows the details of the Google Chrome app.
At iOS, it's possible to ad ?action=write-review to the link, this will not only open the app in the App Store, this will also present the Write a review window of the app, so that you can write a review without the need to click on the Write review button before.
Is there something similar for Android?
As far as I know, Android doesn't have a similar option.
However, Android supports reviewing within your application with in-app reviews.
Use case: send email to users that currently don’t have the app installed. The email shall contain two links for Google (Android devices) and Apple (for iPhone). When the user taps on the link, launch Google play or Apple store app on the phone pointing to the app so that the user can download.
Is this functionality be implemented by Firebase Dynamic Links? We support Android KitKat and above. What is the minimum OS the user will need?
Sai, the use-case you describing is the reason why Firebase Dynamic Links exists. It does not matter how you get your link to the hands of the customers/users. You can use FDL in emails, SMS, iMessage, Facebook, Twiter etc.
You do not need to specify two links. One Firebase Dynamic Link will work on both Android and iOS. If App is not installed, the link will navigate to AppStore or PlayStore. If App is installed, the link will open the App with deep link.
If opened on desktop, the link will navigate to deep link itself. Also check out "dfl" Desktop fallback link parameter for desktop behavior.
Firebase Dynamic Links on Android supported Ice Cream Sandwich and newer. KitKat is supported by FDL.
I have a website which has links that sends people to the app store and google play to download my app.
But regular links just go to the website. How can I change it so that if people are on mobile devices, the link opens the app store or google play for them?
Thanks,
Alex
I used onelink.to and it's working great so far, it generates a QRcode as well.
For Android apps, you can just link to the Google play store directly. The Android OS will prompt the user if they want to open the link in their browser or open the link in the Google Play store app as soon as they click on it. Any http://play.google.com?id=* link will prompt the user in this way on an Android device.
If you've got an Android phone, just give it a try with this link to the Facebook app for Android
For iPhone, check out this answer that is very complete for what you want to do.
You can use http://toSto.re to redirect people to the right app store or your website depending on the user agent the users have set.
URLs like toSto.re/dawawas can be configured easily there.
I basically want to detect the path from where users are getting to my android app market page.
What are the different keywords for which users are searching and thus viewing (if not necessarily downloading) my android app.
If they are clicking on my app from top free / top new free/ top free games
I can see that the above information being passed in the browser when I click on app icon through a certain path (like search, featured, top free etc.)
I want to catch this information and if possible, analyze so that I can better optimize my app performance on google play.
PLease Note: I am NOT talking about referral tracking which is provided when a referral link is clicked and that app is downloaded through google play app. I just want to analyze the behaviour of user when they are browsing the google play on their browser and finally reaching to my app display page.
Generally, no. As far as I know, Google doesn't expose that information for the most part. As for the information you found passed to your app by earlier version of the Market app, that was specific to the Market app and is referral tracking. It just happens that you're talking about organic referrals.
recently Google play and Google Analytics announced they would start sharing data with easy integrations, if you already have integrated the sdk in your app, just follow the process to enable sharing data. and you will start seeing data from both platforms including keywords and installation sources according to this link. http://analytics.blogspot.com/2013/10/google-play-integration.html