View source for Linking to Apps

==Full Title or Meme==
Since the advent of apps stores, first on smart phone, but now every where, the need to invoke an app by linking direct to it has become important.

==Context==
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==Solutions==

===Apple support for Links===
* [https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/defining-a-custom-url-scheme-for-your-app Custom URL Scheme for Your App] still works to create a custom scheme for your app but Apple prefers developers to use Universal Links.
* [https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/allowing-apps-and-websites-to-link-to-your-content Allowing Apps and Websites to Link to Your Content] or '''UniversalLinks''' allows directing a requested link to deep inside an app. It allows a two-way association between the app and the developers web site, similar to the way [[PWA initiators]] work.

==References==
* see the wiki page on [[Native App URI Handlers]].


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