DeepLinking not working for iOS

[maxmitz]

auto_route version: 7.4.0

My problem is that deep links do work fine for Android but the "deepLinkBuilder" function does not get triggered (I tried it with break points) when I open the app with a link or the command line (xcrun simctl openurl booted https:///details) with iOS. I followed the setup steps from the Flutter documentation and from auto_route.

The app does open but the Deeplink is not triggered. I want to refer to a special screen in my app. With VSC I do not get a console print. In xCode I get "[Firebase/Analytics][I-ACS023000] Deep Link Web URL query is empty". Could this have something to do with it?

It is not possible for me to post a reproducible example because you need to upload the AASA file to your website.

Does somebody have the same issue, does have a workaround, or do see another issue that it could be?

Tell me if you have ideas for further information that I could provide.

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[sjoulbak]

@maxmitz I believe your issue is with the scheme https. I can remember that I had to changed it to something else in order to get it to work for iOS by configuring CFBundleURLSchemes. For consistency reasons I would recommend to change it for Android as well by configuring android:scheme.

[jfacoustic]

@sjoulbak Do you have any more information besides changing the URL scheme to something else? That's a little vague.

[jfacoustic]

I'm having a similar problem. I'm using Firebase dynamic links to generate the deep link, and it is working correctly on Android but not iOS.

I can manually listen to the link opening the app from the Firebase package, but deepLinkBuilder is never being invoked. As far as I can tell, I have Info.plist/build configurations set up correctly.

[sjoulbak]

@jfacoustic I can give you an example configuration:

# ios/Runner/Info.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>FlutterDeepLinkingEnabled</key>
        <true/>
        <key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
        <array>
            <dict>
                <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
                <string>Editor</string>
                <key>CFBundleURLName</key>
                <string>whooff.nl</string>
                <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
                <array>
                    <string>whooff</string>
                </array>
            </dict>
        </array>
    </dict>
</plist>

With above configuration you can deeplink to: whooff://whooff.nl/home/dashboard

[kane-knowby]

Hi, I'm currently experiencing the same issue with deepLinkBuilder not working for iOS. Unfortunately the above workaround is not suitable. For now I am forced to use uni_links to work around the issue.

Is the underlying issue for this problem known?

[KarinBerg]

I recommend to check if your Universal Links stuff is correctly configured on the Apple site. Especially the hosting of the "apple-app-site-association" file. For this use the AASA Validator from Branch.io to verify if your Associated Domains are correctly configured. If this check fails, then the problem is not auto_route. Here is a guide for what you have to do to configure universal links for your iOS app: https://www.branch.io/resources/blog/how-to-setup-universal-links-to-deep-link-on-apple-ios/

Hint: If the AASA Validator tells you that the "content-type" header is wrong, then upload your "apple-app-site-association" file again with the file suffix .json.

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[fabienbranchel]

Same issue here. Like @kane-knowby, my only solution is to use uni_links, and it's pretty annoying, even more when deepLinkBuilder works as expected on Android.

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[k-ane]

Anyone made any progress here? Our associated domains are setup correctly so I'm quite sure it's not that. We were able to work around the issue with uni_links but shouldn't have to

[KBEMobisys]

@k-ane Which auto_route version do you use and have you tried to use the latest one? Also which flutter and Xcode version do you use?

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[kane-knowby]

I finally found out what the issue was here! It relates to this: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/123813

Even though I wasn't using uni_links at all, just depending on the package caused the issue. I removed the dependency, flutter clean and flutter pub get, then all worked as expected!

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