Directing Users to a Specific Screen via Firebase Dynamic Links in Swift
Firebase Dynamic Links are smart URLs that allow you to send existing and potential users to any location within your iOS or Android app.
As your iOS App grows and becomes professional, it will bring different requirements. One of the most important features that almost every large-scale iOS Application uses for different purposes today is Deeplinks.
The most popular and effective deep links are as follows:
– Redirecting users to download the app to the App Store.
– Directing users to certain screens and modules within the application.
Moreover, we can collect analytical data while constructing this entire flow. For example, from which channel did the user reach this link (Firebase Dynamic Links)? How many users completed the flow entirely using Dynamic Link?
So What is This Deep Link Technically?
Since we will be using Firebase Dynamic Links in this article, let’s look at Google’s definition together.
Dynamic Links are smart URLs that allow you to send existing and potential users to any location within your iOS or Android app. They survive the app install process, so even new users see the content they’re looking for when they open the app for the first time.
Yes, they are smart. Dynamic Links are contains data that users can’t see. But, as iOS developers, we can parse and process this data easily.
Today, we will look at how to direct our users to a specific screen or module in our iOS Applications.
Adding Firebase Dynamic Links to Our Xcode Project
We won’t dive into the step-by-step Firebase setup process. Before using Firebase Dynamic Links you must set up your project with Firebase SDK. You can follow the steps from here.
For using Dynamic Links you just add Dynamic Links SDK via cocoapods or SPM. It’s similar to Firebase SDK.
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