Deep link navigation hierarchy?

[ibrahima]

Hi! I've been wondering, does anyone do anything special with deep links in terms of navigation hierarchy, and is there even a way for us to do that? Like, if someone opens a deep link into my app, the "Back" action might take them back to the root, which can be disorienting if they actually wanted to go "up" one level in the hierarchy of the app. Is there any way we can artificially create the navigation stack to include everything that would have led up to that page if you navigated to it from the root? Is this a bad idea? Would love to hear people's thoughts on this!

[ibrahima]

My hunch is that there's no way to do this other than by calling navigator.route multiple times with the hierarchy you want, which might be tricky to figure out from the deep link handler code. If you have nested routes you might be able to figure out the "parent" URL from the child but otherwise you'd need to encode some knowledge of your app's routes into the mobile app.

[joemasilotti]

You could also manually manipulate the UINavigationController via setViewControllers(_:animated:). It would require you to manually build each HotwireWebViewController but I think it should work.

[ibrahima]

Ooh that's a cool idea thanks!