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applinks in iOS 9 not working

I don't get applinks: in iOS not working, whenever I open a link like https://www.example.com/something on my iOS 9 device, it gets opened in Safari.

I'm running the app via debug provisioning profile, on my server there is a file called apple-app-site-association.

There are two different formats I found:

{
  "applinks": {
    "apps": [],
    "details": {
      "AB1CDEFGHI.com.mydomain.myapp": {
        "paths": ["*"]
      }
    }
  }
}

as well as

{
    "applinks": {
        "apps": [],
        "details": [
        {
            "appID": "AB1CDEFGHI.com.mydomain.myapp",
            "paths": [ "*" ]
        }
        ]
    }
}

so that's the first thing I'm not sure which one to use.

The second is the 'AB1CDEFGHI'-part; the "Team-ID" of the app? Is it the stuff that's included in the appid or really the team id of the developer account?

So is it this one completely blacked out?

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or is it this one here (again, the part completely blacked out)?

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EDIT

I just tried setting it up in another app, worked the first time without any problems - really don't know the difference.

  • AppId includes entitlements
  • apple-app-site-association is the same
  • associated domains added in app
  • - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application continueUserActivity:(NSUserActivity *)userActivity restorationHandler:(void (^)(NSArray *restorableObjects))restorationHandler implemented

what could I probably be missing?

EDIT 2

I just saw a difference in both apps (the one that's working and the one that doesn't): the working app has an AppId in the developer portal with a prefix matching the TeamID, the not-working app has a prefix which is different from the TeamID. I already tried using the prefix from the AppID in the apple-association-file, but it doesn't work either...

Solution

  • I found the error on my side: I had to use the App IDs prefix in the apple-app-site-association file which was different than the TeamID for this specific app.

    I didn't find a documentation where it says something other than TeamID, that's why it took me so long. Only after I compared with two apps I found the only difference and now it's working.