Deferred Deep Linking URL in Android
I want to implement deferred deep linking in my android app. My understanding is I need to provide a url and when user opens the url, it will direct user to the app or to play store if the app has not been installed. From my research, seems Android is able to resolve deferred deep linking by default. But my question is where is the URL from? Does Google have any url builder to generate it for me or do I need to have a website and write some code for the url?
Answer
The url comes from any app or the user. Its just a normal app in the form http://example.com/path. THe magic is that your manifest registers an intent filter for the http scheme and the example.com/path path, and Android will take any intent that has an ACTION_VIEW for that url to your app. If your app isn't installed, since its an http url it falls back to the browser. If the url happens to go or redirect to the play store, then it gets you that behavior as well.