App Links Assistant in Android Studio 2.3 - Android Tool Time

Android Developers · 187K views · 2017 · 5:00

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Why Stack Overflow recommends it

Stack Overflow users link it when explaining how to set up and verify Android App Links with the Assistant, and when showing what the disambiguation dialog looks like.

Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2017 to 2023.

What it is

A five-minute Android Tool Time video from the Android Developers channel showing the App Links Assistant added in Android Studio 2.3. It walks through adding App Links support, editing the manifest, inserting code snippets, and generating and testing a Digital Asset Links file for a server.

What people said

Recommends user17721841 · 2022-01 · Stack Overflow · on “Why App Links Assistant show SHA256 error”

There's no code I go step by step with by this short video [this video] and all right except of when i'm try to generate the Digital Asset, that my result [LINK]

Recommends user1154390 · 2023-01 · Stack Overflow · on “Launching an App from a URL”

Android studio made this task very easy they introduced App Links Assistant in Android Studio 2.3 -. It does every thing for you and test as well. It can be found in android studio Tools > App Links Assistant. useful demo video can be seen at this link. [this video]

Cites Anoop M Maddasseri · 2017-03 · Stack Overflow · on “What is app links assistant and how it differs from firebase app indexing?”

Android Studio 2.3 come up with a new App Link Assistant [LINK] which helps you build and have a consolidated view of your URIs in your app that makes app content searchable by Google . As mobile apps become more pervasive, users are looking for relevant information not only from websites but also from apps they have installed. you can enable App Link Assistant and present your Android app as a destination to users through Google Search results. You can make your existing web content discoverable to mobile clients that support App Links. When people click on links to your existing content through supported clients, they can load the content in your app instead of a web view. Firebase app ind

Cites Louis · 2018-02 · Stack Overflow · on “How to disable disambiguation dialog when opening Branch.io deeplink”

I have followed the steps to setup deep links using Branch.io in my app and I successfully received my first deep link through an SMS. My problem is that when I open the link I am not directly taken to the link destination (website or app), but to a disambiguation dialog, exactly like in this video : [this video] Apparently this can ben avoided by linking the Digital Asset Links file to a given URL. [LINK] When I check this with the App Links Assistant, an error saying that the file is malformed, which is not true. When I click the link I get the exact same content as shown in the preview, but the SHA246 fingerprint value is missing (even though I filled the "SHA256 Fingerprint" field in Branch.i