iOS redirect does not work

[roumenh]

Hello,
first of all, big thanks for this extension!
I work with app that has both native (iOS and Android) implementation, and I was experimenting with your extension.

The Android part works just fine. I was briefly testing iOS part now, just to see if the redirect to AppStore will work, but once redirected to AppStore, it throws error.

If I emulate being iPhone in the browser and I open the source code, it feels like the iOS part is missing. There is only redirect to https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ but without any ID. I supplied ios Bundle in the settings.

The source code I see is:

Thank you for your reply! :) Roman

[roumenh]

UPDATE:
I probably found the reason. The app I work on is only available in certain countries, in my case - in Sweden.
After research:
https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/105525
and once I found where you do get the appStoreId from - index.ts, 261
I realized this may be the cause of the issue.

• also I am wondering if here
  https://github.com/jauntybrain/flow-links-extension/blob/main/functions/lib/assets/html/index.html
  on line 74 you define iOS behaviour but only with redirect to Store. Shouldnt be there also sub-conditions to try to open the app at the targeted deeplink?

[jauntybrain]

Hi @roumenh, thanks for reporting this! I see the problem with appstore ID lookup - didn't expect it to behave like that. I can fix this by adding an optional parameter for the appstore ID, what do you think?

The iOS redirection logic comes after all of the device logic, so if the device decided to open the application with the deeplink, it will do that before the script in index.html is executed. Therefore, everything in that script runs if the device didn't do anything about the link and loaded the webpage instead. Does that help or were you referring to some other logic?

[roumenh]

@jauntybrain Thank you Pavel for your reply.
I even tried to add. the &country=se parameter after the bundleID, but the field validates as wrong bundle ID. I will leave the implementation to you, but yes, somehow to get the parameter in :)

I will then test the iOS redirection.

[wer-mathurin]

@jauntybrain Any updates on this, we ave the same problem, because our app in available only in canada.\

This is a show stopper to use the extension for now, but as soon this will be fixed, we will use it for sure.

Very good documentation!

[pavel163]

Hello. Any updates?

[pavel163]

We use this in production and had to set one country for iOS. Our links stopped working

[miguel2211]

Hello, did anyone find a solution?