I am trying to use the App Links Meta data to add support to deeplink our mobile App from our mobile Web pages and looks like I hit a road block on my first step. The documentation states that the meta tags be included in your head section of the page. App Links Doc
<head>
<meta property="al:ios:url" content="mysite://docs" />
<meta property="al:ios:app_store_id" content="12345" />
<meta property="al:ios:app_name" content="My Site" />
</head>
- Can the meta tags be used only for Facebook and Twitter currently or any site can take advantage of it
I see that there are many tutorials out there on how to handle the URL's once they hit the IOS or Android App. But I see no info on how this is supposed to be handled on the web site in general( on where it is deeplinked to the mobile App)
So is including the meta tags the only step required to deep link ?
Or Do we need to write up some javascript based on some action depending on the device the user is in needs to be redirected to one of the url's that the Mobile App is configured to ?
Like specifying the window.location = 'mysite://help' and rerouting to web url if that fails.
As of now the documentation does not seem to be really clear on how to handle this on the web side of any application.
you can create an applink here: https://developers.facebook.com/quickstarts/?platform=app-links-host
the iOS url is a url that cna be used to launch you iOS app - e.g. a schema (app://) used for deeplinking.
this will create a fb.me/xxxxx link which you can use as the app linkin your code.