Ios App Universal Links

What are universal links.

Ios app universal links. In this tutorial we will go through every step to configure universal links for ios and app links on android. Its role is to indicate which ios apps are linked to your website domain. They link to content inside an app or website giving ios users an integrated mobile experience.

When a universal link is opened ios checks to see if any installed. As apple documentation described it s important it has to be placed at the root of the domain served under https and without any redirection. What universal links allow us is not only to have a unique url for the webpage the ios app and maybe even the android app.

But more than that universal links allow us to have a fallback webpage. To support universal links first is to create an app association file exactly named as apple app site association. Ios remembers the user s choice when opening universal links.

With universal links you can always give users the most integrated mobile experience even when your app isn t installed on their device. Seamlessly link to content in your app or on your website. They are basically the same but have a different name.

First identify the domain that you d like to use for your universal links. Universal links are apple s way of launching apps on their operating system from a website also known as a web view. To help with this process use our universal links validator to check if your apple app site association file is configured properly.

However universal links are exclusive to apple devices running ios and have the ability to open a web page from an application. If they tap the top right breadcrumb to open the link in safari all further clicks will take them to safari and not the app. Broadly there aren t many differences between universal links and traditional deep links.