How to adopt universal links

To adopt universal links in your app, you can follow the guidance provided in the WWDC sessions. Here are the key steps and concepts:

1. Define Universal Links: Universal links help people access your content, whether or not they have your app installed. You can represent your app entities, enums, and intents as having a URL representation. This allows Siri and shortcuts to treat them like links to specific content, enabling actions to open the URL or making them shareable.

2. URL Representable Entities: Extend your app entities to support URL representable entities. For example, you can provide a static URL representation using your universal link as the template. You can use an entity's identifier or any of its properties with the @property attribute as interpolations in the URL string.

3. App Intents Integration: Create intents that conform to URLRepresentableIntent. This allows your app to handle the URL and perform the necessary actions. For instance, you can create an OpenTrailIntent that targets a TrailEntity and conforms to URLRepresentableIntent.

4. Deep Links in App Store Connect: You can also use deep links for custom product pages in App Store Connect. This allows you to customize where someone lands when they open your app from a custom product page. These deep links can be any custom URL or a universal link recognized by your app's code.

For more detailed information, you can refer to the following sessions and chapters:

• What’s new in App Intents (Universal links)
• What’s new in App Store Connect (Deep links for custom product pages)

Relevant Sessions

1. What’s new in App Intents

   • Introduction
   • Spotlight integration
   • Entities and files
   • Universal links
   • Developer improvements

2. What’s new in App Store Connect

   • Introduction
   • Get discovered
   • Test your app
   • Reach customers