AppLink Xamarin forms not indexing

Question

I was wondering if you can help, it's literally driving me crazy. I'm trying to integrate deeplinking into my app following Lightning lecture and it simply doesn't work. I can't even get my items to show in spotlight search.

So I created a completely new project, all default New solution->forms app.

The default app is a todo list app, where I've added just two methods

AppLinkEntry GetAppLink(ItemDetailViewModel item)
    {
        var pageType = GetType().ToString();
        var pageLink = new AppLinkEntry
        {
            Title = item.Title,
            Description = item.Title,
            AppLinkUri = new Uri(string.Format("http://website1120180225101729.azurewebsites.net/?id={0}",item.Title.Replace(" ","") ), UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute),
            IsLinkActive = true,
            Thumbnail = ImageSource.FromFile("xamarin_logo.png")
        };

        return pageLink;
    }
    protected override void OnAppearing()
    {
        appLink = GetAppLink(BindingContext as ItemDetailViewModel);
        if (appLink != null)
        {
            appLink.IsLinkActive = true;
            Application.Current.AppLinks.RegisterLink(appLink);
        }
    }

Please see the print screen below. It registers an app link

But when I minimise the app and got to spotlight search it doesn't appear there

Answer 1

You should also add the Associated Domains in your Entitlements.plist. Open your Entitlements.plist configure it like:

After setting it, we should add this custom entitlements to our project:

Right click the iOS project => Properties => iOS Bundle Signing => Custom Entitlements.

Choose the Entitlements.plist we set above.