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Alexandru Pufan
Alexandru Pufan

Reputation: 1912

Ionic 3: Getting value from PlayStore link

I have an Ionic 3 app and I want to set some variable inside it based on the download link from Playstore. For example, http://linktoplaystore.com/app?account=4 would set the account variable inside my app to be 4. Is there any way to achieve this?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 1273

Answers (5)

Alexandru Pufan
Alexandru Pufan

Reputation: 1912

I finally managed to make it work using Firebase Dynamic Links.

After I've setup my app in the Firebase console, I manually created a link which looks like this:

https://myapp.page.link/?link=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ionicframework.myapp?account4

In my Ionic app, I've installed and configured Firebase Dynamic Links plugin: https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/firebase-dynamic-links/

Then, inside app.component.ts, after the platform is initialized, I use this code:

firebaseDynamicLinks.onDynamicLink().subscribe((res: any) => {
 let link = res;
}, err => {
  alert(err);
});

The link will be a JavaScript object that looks like this:

{"deepLink":"https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ionicframework.couriermanagerclient1234?account4","clickTimestamp":1535449992657,"minimumAppVersion":0}

From here, I can parse the result and extract the account parameter from inside the deepLink property

Upvotes: 1

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 1730

The only way would be Firebase Dynamic links to achieve this (as stated in my comment earlier).

Dynamic links can survive the app installation process. And because of that, you can use the parameters. But the links have to be created somewhere (manually or in code).

Take a look at https://firebase.google.com/docs/dynamic-links/. The Ionic plugin for this is still in beta though: https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/firebase-dynamic-links/

Upvotes: 1

nkshio
nkshio

Reputation: 1080

Parse link in JavaScript to get the required value

Code Snippet

var link = "http://linktoplaystore.com/app?account=4";
var variable = link.split('?')[1].split('=')[1];

Also, you should open an API to send this link from server, so you don't need to push app-update in case of any changes in the link.

Hope it helps!

Upvotes: 2

Grant
Grant

Reputation: 6309

I don't think it's possible from the Playstore, but from an external source of your own you could access in app functions via Deeplinks. See https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/deeplinks/ for more information.

this.deeplinks.route({
    '/account/:accountId': AccountPage
}).subscribe(match => {
    console.log(match.$args);
}, nomatch => {
    console.error('Got a deeplink that didn\'t match', nomatch);
});

Upvotes: 2

ldrrp
ldrrp

Reputation: 704

You can do this in code by parsing and defining an array

private urlParameters: Array<any> = [];

if (YOURURLVARIABLE.indexOf("?") > 0) {
    let splitURL = document.URL.split("?");
    let splitParams = splitURL[1].split("&");
    let i: any;
    for (i in splitParams){
        let singleURLParam = splitParams[i].split('=');
        let urlParameter = {
        'name': singleURLParam[0],
        'value': singleURLParam[1]
    };
    this.urlParameters.push(urlParameter);
    }
}

this.urlParamID = navParams.get('account').value;

Upvotes: 2

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