Universal links (Associated Domains, apple-app-site-association)
Generated on 9/3/2024
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Universal links are a key feature discussed in the WWDC sessions, particularly in the context of app intents and App Store Connect. Universal links allow users to access specific content within your app, whether or not the app is installed. They can be used to deep link to specific content, such as a trail in a trails app, by using a URL representation of app entities, enums, and intents. This makes it possible for Siri and shortcuts to treat them like links to specific content, enhancing the user experience by allowing actions to open URLs or make them shareable.
In the session What’s new in App Intents, it is explained how you can extend your app entities to support URL representable entities, using the entity's identifier as an interpolated value.
Additionally, in the session What’s new in App Store Connect, deep links are highlighted as a way to improve the user experience from custom product pages on the App Store. These deep links can be universal links recognized by your app's code, allowing for a seamless transition from an ad or a custom product page to the specific content within your app.
For more detailed information, you can refer to the chapters "Universal links" in the session "What’s new in App Intents" and "Reach customers" in the session "What’s new in App Store Connect".
Bring your app to Siri
Learn how to use App Intents to expose your app’s functionality to Siri. Understand which intents are already available for your use, and how to create custom intents to integrate actions from your app into the system. We’ll also cover what metadata to provide, making your entities searchable via Spotlight, annotating onscreen references, and much more.
What’s new in App Intents
Learn about improvements and all-new features with App Intents, and discover how this framework can help you expose your app’s functionality to Siri, Spotlight, Shortcuts, and more. We’ll show you how to make your entities more meaningful to the platform with the Transferable API, File Representations, new IntentFile APIs, and Spotlight Indexing, opening up powerful functionality in Siri and the Shortcuts app. Empower your intents to take people deep into your app with URL Representable Entities. Explore new techniques to model your entities and intents with new APIs for error handling and union values.
What’s new in App Store Connect
Explore new features for discovery, testing, and marketing. Find out how to nominate your apps for featuring on the App Store, share exciting moments (like a version launch) with marketing assets generated for you, deep link to specific content in your app from custom product pages, use the latest enhancements to TestFlight, and more.