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Learn How To Implement Deep Linking With Firebase In Your Flutter Apps

RAHUL THAKUR
FlutterDevs
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2 min readAug 1, 2022

Consider you have a web app or website, and two beautiful apps (Android and iOS) for making your product accessible to your customers. Now for some reason, the analytics shows the users are accessing the product information majorly via the browsers not just on the desktop, but also on the mobile.

Very often when a web app/ site is not mobile browser optimized, the user might find it really hard to get the information he/she is seeking which can lead to user drop-offs.

Why not redirect the users to the play store or app store and make them use the apps which are made just to provide an optimized mobile experience?

Oh yes! Why not?

But this can lead to another problem where the user downloads the app, but now he/she has to manually navigate to the products they were once interested in while hitting the URL on the mobile browser. This again breaks user experience which needs to be addressed.

URL’s

Assuming the deeplinkingdemoapp.page.link has an Android and an iOS app, the link should redirect you to one of these apps for a better user experience. If the app is already available on your device, there are high chances of you landing on the equivalent app screen if the concept of deep links (which is quite popular already) is implemented inside the apps.

But what happens if the app is not installed?

With Dynamic Links, users get the best available experience for the platform they open the link on. If the link is opened in iOS or Android browsers, it can be taken directly to the linked content in your native app. If a user opens the same link on a desktop browser, they will be taken to the equivalent content on your website or web app.

If a user opens a Dynamic Link on iOS or Android and doesn’t have the app installed, the user can be prompted to install it; then, after installation, your app starts and can access the link shared that was shared.

Dynamic links provide a way for deep links to survive the installation step in a way that the user never loses the context.

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