Deep Links

The Deep Links plugin provides deep linking support for both Android App Links and iOS Universal Links.

Deep links point to a page inside of a mobile app. For example, if you had an online store selling products, upon navigating to a website link (https://yoursite.com/product/cool-beans) the app could open and navigate to display the Cool Beans product.

The mobile app can also be opened directly to the Cool Beans product page using a custom URL scheme, like coolbeans://product/cool-beans.

Installation#

If you have not already setup Ionic Enterprise in your app, follow the one-time setup steps.

Next, install the plugin:

Capacitor
Cordova

npm install @ionic-enterprise/deeplinks
npx cap sync

Index#

Classes#

Deeplinks

Classes#

Deeplinks#

Deeplinks:

Please read the ionic plugin deeplinks docs for iOS and Android integration. You must add universal-links to your config.xml and set up Apple App Site Association (AASA) for iOS and Asset Links for Android.

usage:

import { Deeplinks } from '@ionic-enterprise/deeplinks/ngx';

constructor(private deeplinks: Deeplinks) { }

this.deeplinks.route({
    '/about-us': AboutPage,
    '/universal-links-test': AboutPage,
    '/products/:productId': ProductPage
  }).subscribe(match => {
    // match.$route - the route we matched, which is the matched entry from the arguments to route()
    // match.$args - the args passed in the link
    // match.$link - the full link data
    console.log('Successfully matched route', match);
  }, nomatch => {
    // nomatch.$link - the full link data
    console.error('Got a deeplink that didn\'t match', nomatch);
  });

Alternatively, if you're using Ionic, there's a convenience method that takes a reference to a NavController and handles the actual navigation for you:

this.deeplinks.routeWithNavController(this.navController, {
  '/about-us': AboutPage,
  '/products/:productId': ProductPage
}).subscribe(match => {
    // match.$route - the route we matched, which is the matched entry from the arguments to route()
    // match.$args - the args passed in the link
    // match.$link - the full link data
    console.log('Successfully matched route', match);
  }, nomatch => {
    // nomatch.$link - the full link data
    console.error('Got a deeplink that didn\'t match', nomatch);
  });

See the Ionic Deeplinks Demo for an example of how to retrieve the NavController reference at runtime.

interfaces: DeeplinkMatch

route#

▸ route(paths: any): Observable<DeeplinkMatch>

Define a set of paths to match against incoming deeplinks.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
paths	`any`	Define a set of paths to match against incoming deeplinks. paths takes an object of the form { 'path': data }. If a deeplink matches the path, the resulting path-data pair will be returned in the promise result which you can then use to navigate in the app as you see fit.

Returns: Observable<DeeplinkMatch> Returns an Observable that is called each time a deeplink comes through, and errors if a deeplink comes through that does not match a given path.

routeWithNavController#

▸ routeWithNavController(navController: any, paths: any, options?: DeeplinkOptions): Observable<DeeplinkMatch>

This is a convenience version of route that takes a reference to a NavController from Ionic, or a custom class that conforms to this protocol:

NavController.push = function(View, Params){}

This handler will automatically navigate when a route matches. If you need finer-grained control over the behavior of a matching deeplink, use the plain route method.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
navController	`any`	Define a set of paths to match against incoming deeplinks. paths takes an object of the form { 'path': data }. If a deeplink matches the path, the resulting path-data pair will be returned in the promise result which you can then use to navigate in the app as you see fit.
paths	`any`
`Optional` options	DeeplinkOptions

Returns: Observable<DeeplinkMatch> Returns an Observable that resolves each time a deeplink comes through, and errors if a deeplink comes through that does not match a given path.

Interfaces#

DeeplinkMatch#

DeeplinkMatch:

$args#

● $args: any

Any arguments passed either through route parameters or GET parameters

$link#

● $link: any

The deeplink object processed from the plugin, along with any any internal native data available as "extras" at the time the route was matched (for example, Facebook sometimes adds extra data)

$route#

● $route: any

The route info for the matched route

DeeplinkOptions#

DeeplinkOptions:

root#

● root: boolean

Set the matched route as root page using navCtrl.setRoot() method.