Deep linking to a specific page / context in a mobile app

I just tried building for iOS and installing on the device.
Then launched the app and clicked on the button tp register for notifications and launch event builder.
Then switched to my browser and clicked on the deep link.
Same as before, the app launches, but doesn’t change page.

So no change relative to using flutter run targeted at my iPhone.

Ok, it’s fine. Are you tap on push when your app is in background or foreground? Or you tried both?

What do you mean tap on push ?

I go to my browser and click on the deep link I prepared.

Stop, we talk about same feature or not? Are you try do next:

  1. User gets push
  2. Tap on this push on his device
  3. Redirect to another page
    It’s right?

In the original post, I described :

  1. User gets deep link (via email, via webpage or via push notification)
  2. Taps on link or push notification on his device
  3. App opens to specified page

Ok, I understand. I will help you with push notifications implementation, about email\webpage I will talk to team

Can you share with me content that you puts into push headers?

I have not yet tried with push notifications, because I thought deep links were the same between URL in webpage/email and push notifications. Are they different ? I figured I would start with a link on a webpage because it’s simple and easy to see what’s in the link.

Yes it will has different behaviour, because tapping on push logic controlled by native code, while redirect code - by your application with codeless.

Can you share with me FULL link that doesn’t opens the specific page?

:white_check_mark: This link launches the app correctly :
https://app.ready4sea.com

:x: This link launches the app but does not switch over to the desired page :
https://app.ready4sea.com?page=test-page

:x: This link launches the app but does not switch over to the desired page :
https://app.ready4sea.com?data%3D%7B%22page%22%3A%22test-page%22%7D

Hi @Nicolas_REMY

is this domain app.ready4sea.com just an example or it’s your app?

could you please provide your appId?

Regards,
Vlad

I just tried it in my app and seems like everything works well, the link below opens a specific page

https://skilledhome.backendless.app?page=test

My appID is D7075715-5086-625A-FFAB-39C2F40FB200

app.ready4sea.com is my real app.

Up to now I was using examples, but Nikita asked for the real URL, so this is the real URL.

I have built this test page : https://ready4sea.com/test.html
The link there points at https://app.ready4sea.com/?page=A2-edit-my-profile

When tapping the link on my device, it does not take me to page A2-edit-my-profile

(Just to be clear, I am trying to get to page A2-edit-my-profile inside my mobile app, not on a web page)

In the app in the web/index.html file, I can see a redirection to your host

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; URL=https://ready4sea.com/" />

so when you open app.ready4sea.com it redirects you ready4sea.com which points to a site beyond our service

Besides, doesn’t matter which query params you specify app.ready4sea.com/?page=A2-edit-my-profile it always opens ready4sea.com]

Vladimir, I agree with you on the Web. Not on a mobile device. This is why I pointed out that I am trying to achieve this on my mobile app.

What you are witnessing is the fallback version of the deep link on desktop. If you try it on your mobile with the app installed, it does launch the app and does not redirect to the fallback website.

But let’s suppose I got the whole thing wrong, I don’t mind.

Then, the entire question remains, and it’s been asked back a year ago by this person here : Deep Linking Quastion. And then I opened this thread back in October because we weren’t getting anywhere.

The question is : how do I achieve opening page X with parameters Y in the mobile app ? To this day, I still don’t know, and @mark-piller 's reply to the above thread back in February 2022 stated that it worked and that if it didn’t you would fix it. I would gladly use guidance to get this to work. Thanks.

I’m not sure I understand this point, you are trying to open a web page by the provided URL, what’s the difference between opening it from a web browser and a flutter app?

The question is : how do I achieve opening page X with parameters Y in the mobile app ? To this day, I still don’t know, and @mark-piller 's reply to the above thread back in February 2022 stated that it worked and that if it didn’t you would fix it. I would gladly use guidance to get this to work. Thanks.

are we talking about an app built with our UIBuilder?

Hi Vladimir,

Yes, we are talking about a mobile app built with your UIbuilder and encapsulated in the Native Mobile App Shell.

What I am trying to achieve is this : Mobile deep linking - Wikipedia

Here is a video demonstrating the basics on iPhone :

(if you have doubts, at 0:03 in this video, I am tapping on the link)

On Android I couldn’t record a video, but the same goes, and I get a popup asking me whether to open the link in the app or in my browser.

Both examples here are with my Backendless app, built with your Ui builder and the Native Mobile App Shell. Up to here, things work and I end up on the app’s start page.

But the desired behavior goes beyond this. I need to get to a specific page (X) and even pass some parameters (Y).

Please note that I am NOT trying to open a web page from my browser, I am NOT trying to open a web page from my flutter app. I am trying to open a page from the MOBILE APP from a browser link, from an email link or from a push notification.

thanks for the clarification, now I see

  1. you’ve got a UIBuilder app wrapped into a native Flatter app
  2. and the app is installed on the mobile device
  3. then you open in a web browser on the device some web site where located a link to open the Mobile app
  4. but you do not want just to open the app you are looking for a way to the app with a specific page and parameters

am I correct?

If so our Flutter developer will look into it and provide you with the guide.

YES ! That’s it.

Help would be really great, because I have been waiting for a long time for this feature, and now I really really need it to work.

Thanks.

Can you share with me your Info.plist and code thats handle event when deep link was tapped.