open iOS/android app from button clink

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  heeltoedynamics · Member · Mar 19, 2024 at 11:13 pm

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  I want to have a WordPress website, I need it to open my react native app on iOS and android through a button click. I was achieving this with this line (prior to using WordPress)

  window.location.replace(url);

  and url was a custom one for my app autotourapp.com:/

  is it possible to do this with WordPress, does the site allow me to have a /.wellKnown file for apple to access to confirm the site and the app are linked.

  to link and open specific content in our react native ios/android app we have a custom url scheme: autotourapp.com:/
  Opening our app from the web (on mobile) has required me to replace the in-browser url with the custom url scheme and path autotourapp.com:/map/trail/10778.
  I am looking to have a user on our WordPress based website be able to click a button to view some content in the app, thus going to a link similar to the one i showed prior: autotourapp.com:/map/trail/10778. On a non-word press site I have achieved this by using window.location.replace(‘autotourapp.com:/map/trail/10778’). On our WordPress site I want to achieve this same behavior.

  So I am trying to handle this by writing code to handle the button click and send to the url.

  For additional context Apple requires a JSON file to be hosted on the website to confirm that the website is associated with that app and can open it. It’s called an apple-app-site-association file and it needs to be stored at https://autotourapp.com/.well-known/apple-app-site-association with no redirects.

  https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/supporting-associated-domains

  Google requires something similar for android. I am looking for if it’s possible to store those files and forward from my site to my mobile app. Is it possible to do this with WordPress? If so I will be paying for an upgraded site, I just don’t want to pay to find out its not possible.

  Thank you,
  Matthew

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