Implementing Deep Links in Flutter: A Comprehensive Guide to Enhance Mobile User Experience
Deep links are links that send users directly to an app instead of a store or website. They are used to send users to specific locations in an app or display specific content to the user. Deep linking is the idea of having a clickable link to open up your app and a smart one that will also navigate to the desired resource. It is a shortcut to app content/resources to save time and energy locating a particular page, improving the user experience. Whether seamlessly transitioning from an email to a specific product page, smoothly launching a ride-sharing app with a destination pre-filled, or effortlessly sharing content across apps, deep linking is the secret sauce that makes it all possible.
Let’s create an imaginary product called Shoppy, an online store. Shoppy has a website and also a mobile app. If a user comes across a product of Shoppy either via search or a promotion link, by default, the link opens in the browser and routes to the exact product, showing you all the details. Employing deep linking here says you should send the user to the specific product page on the app.
Deep links send mobile device users directly to the specific page in-app
instead of a website. A deep link is always in the format:scheme://host/path
https://shoppy.com/product