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Fraser
Fraser

Reputation: 998

Universal Deep Links with Mandrill sub domain

I have Universal Deep Links working for my iOS app, Neighbourly (associated with neighbourly.co.nz)

We send out emails to our users and use Mandrill to track clicks. The email links go to a subdomain clicks.neighbourly.co.nz/path which points to mandrillapp.com/path and the links redirect to neighbourly.co.nz/newpath

Ive added applinks:clicks.neighbourly.co.nz to the apps associated domains.

My apple-app-site-association file's paths is a wildcard: ["*"]

But, while links to neighbourly.co.nz launch the app correctly, links to clicks.neighbourly.co.nz launch in Safari. What am I missing?

I can't find any info online about setting up subdomains for deep links

Does my apple-app-site-association file need to be hosted at mandrillapp.com?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4816

Answers (3)

JeremyWeir
JeremyWeir

Reputation: 24388

We solved this at the DNS (kinda) level using Cloudflare (an amazing service I'd recommend using anyway).

Set up Mandrill to use a custom domain for click tracking using Cloudflare as the DNS provider. In the screenshots below for example it is track.yourdomain.com set up in Mandrill and Cloudflare.

Mandrill tracking domain: mandrill settings

Cloudflare DNS: cloudflare dns

Then in Cloudflare use their "Page Rules" feature to create a redirect to the apple-app-site-association file you have hosted on your actual website (assuming it has the rules that will work on both domains, otherwise you can probably redirect to another file, I didn't test this)

Cloudflare page rules: cloudflare page rules

I also added a cache bypass rule because you want all requests to the track.yourdomain.com to reach your origin server and not get cached by an edge server.

Upvotes: 4

timbroder
timbroder

Reputation: 878

Mandrill's tracking may also be messing with the universal link.

I got around this by disabling mandrill tracking for my branch.io links

mc:disable-tracking is the key

In my template:

<a href="http://mybranchsubdomomain.mydomain.com/something" mc:disable-tracking>Disabled Mandrill URL</a>

Upvotes: 6

Vineet Choudhary
Vineet Choudhary

Reputation: 7632

First of all you don't need to host apple-app-site-association file at mandrillapp.com.

Second thing you need to add applinks:neighbourly.co.nz to the apps associated domains.

Because I just checked, if I'm requesting to your server for apple-app-site-association with URL https://clicks.neighbourly.co.nz/apple-app-site-association then your server return 404 file not found.

Then, I found and downloaded your apple-app-site-association from url https://www.neighbourly.co.nz/apple-app-site-association and I checked you are using the old format. Here your current association file

{
  "applinks": {
    "apps": [],
    "details": {
      "2E23KCX8SU.nz.co.neighbourly.ios": {
        "paths":[ "*", "/" ]
      }
    }
  }
}

replace your old apple-app-site-association file with this new format

{
  "applinks": {
    "apps": [],
    "details": [
      {
        "appID": "2E23KCX8SU.nz.co.neighbourly.ios",
        "paths":[ "*", "/"  ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

After update apple-app-site-association file test it with Apple Validation Tool

App Search API Validation Tool Result

For -> https://clicks.neighbourly.co.nz/apple-app-site-association enter image description here

For -> https://neighbourly.co.nz/apple-app-site-association enter image description here

Upvotes: 1

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