Fix for getInitialLink returning null issue when cold-starting iOS app from a push notification [iOS ONLY]

[ritaamro]

To give some context:
We have a Flutter app utilizing uni_links for handling custom scheme-based deeplinks into the app, and we're using Braze for CRM. Push notifications worked just fine when the app was in foreground or background. However, only when tapping a PN resulted in cold-starting the app, getInitialLink kept returning null*. After debugging with Xcode, we noticed that getInitialLink got invoked twice, first time both "initialLink" and "latestLink" were pointing to the deeplinked url, but the second time only "latestLink" was. But "initialLink" was the one always passed back to Flutter. We were able to fix the issue with this solution, but there could be better way to keep this double invocation from happening in the first place.

• When tapping a link received in a message for example, getInitialLink returned the link just right.

[Irfan-KV]

@avioli Can you please merge this.

[followthemoney1]

@avioli can we merge this pull request?

[yusriltakeuchi]

@ritaamro I don't think the author will merge quickly.
Can I use your repository?

[ritaamro]

Of course :))

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[julianfalcionelli]

I am in the same situation, we are using Braze, and the Deeplinks for Cold-Starting iOS App doesn't work. Tried this and works fine now, why has this is not merged yet... do you think this may be related with just the Braze SDK (maybe they are missing something in their Push Payload?)

[rs-follow]

@avioli this LGTM and fixes my issue of getInitialUri returning null on cold starts for iOS

[jseminck]

I switched to https://pub.dev/packages/app_links and everything works as expected. This package is also better maintained than this one.

[avioli]

Thank you for this contribution, but I don't have any time to maintain this package, so it is now marked as discontinued and app_links recommended replacement.