[L3882] Deferred Deep Linking - Adobe-Marketing-Cloud/aml-summit-lab GitHub Wiki

Deferred Deep Linking

Objective

Your deep links open your app and navigate to a specific page within your app. But what if a user clicks on your deep link but they don't have your app installed? With a deferred deep link, you combine the power of an acquisition link and a deep link into one. If the user already has your app installed, it works similar to a regular deep link. Otherwise, they will be directed to install your app from the App Store. If they launch the app after an install, the deep link will still trigger - taking them to the specific page in your app.

Pre-requisites

For this lab, you will need to have completed the labs on Acquisition Links and Deep Links.

Implementation steps

Create a deferred deep link in the Adobe Mobile Services UI

Navigate to Acquisition > Marketing Link Builder.

Click the Create New button.

Enter a Marketing Link Name and a Unique Tracking Code. If necessary, select a Fallback URL.

Hit the Next Button at the bottom of the page.

Click the box on the far right to add a Destination.

On the Choose a Destination Type dialog, click the App Store button.

Select your iOS app on the Choose An App Store dialog. Check the box to Enable deferred deep linking. Hit the Next button.

You should have a Deep Link already created for the Secret Lounge from the Creating Deep Links in Adobe Mobile Services exercise. Select your Secret Lounge deep link and hit the Save button.

Save your Marketing Link by hitting the Save button at the top of the page.

Click the Copy link under the Link column for your Deferred Deep Link you just made.

Hit the Copy Link button to save the link to your clipboard.

Handle an install with a deferred deep link in the sample app

Navigate to AppDelegate.m.

We have already registered for the AdobeDataCallback in the Accessing Acquisition Data in your App lab. Add the following block of code to handle Deferred Deep Link data:
```
 else if (event == ADBMobileDataEventDeepLink) {
     [self application:application openURL:adobeData[ADBConfigKeyCallbackDeepLink] options:launchOptions];
 }
```

On the iOS simulator, delete the SummitMobileLab app.

Open Safari in the simulator and paste in the deferred deep link. You will get a message in Safari indicating that the Simulator cannot open the App Store. You can ignore this message. If you click on this link on a device, it will redirect to your app in the App Store.

In Xcode, run the app. This will install the app on your Simulator. Because there was a deferred deep link attached to your acquisition link, your first launch will open directly to the "Select a Destination..." page with the Secret Lounge location selected.