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Friday, May 23, 2014

Introducing Facebook: App Links Allow Deep Links Between Mobile Apps

By Ahmad Faisal


Unlike the Internet where you can hop from one page to the next just by clicking on hyperlinks, when it comes to Android devices and their applications, you can't like from one app to the next. What usually happens is that after you're done with one app, you need to close that app and then open another app.



Thankfully, there's such a thing as App Links. What is it? It's an initiative by Facebook which allows developers to link their apps. It is an open source and yes, free solution that enables developers to link between their apps. The good thing about it is that there are no complicate programming languages involved. You only need to use basic tags and HTML code to implement it.

Facebook's Developer Event

The AppLink feature relinquishes the need for web URL by crawling the web automatically to find a compatible app for a mobile OS version and then install it to the device. This means users will no longer have to visit websites to find compatible apps for their smartphones or mobile devices. This feature through all that pain for you hence easing your user experience when looking for a specific app.

If this is approved widely, it could change the way apps are discovered. As it is right now, when people know about an app through a web page, they need to go to Google play or any other apps store to download it. That will no longer be necessary with App Links.

Benefits Of Using App Links - The reason that App Links is so useful is because it has so much versatility. It is open and accessible to everyone, and also has open source SDKs. It is truly cross-platform, working with most major mobile platforms, with many more being added every day. You also have the ability to use the Facebook index API in order to make the determination as to whether or not your URL can be deep linked. Hopefully this new announcement will motivate you to get into the development of mobile applications to increase revenues for your company. Even if you do not have a website, you will make it very easy for you to publish your links using something called Parse, to take advantage of all that App Links has to offer. Find out more about this innovative mobile application today.




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