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I thought that was just based on URLs. Similarly when I open a yelp.com link in my mobile browser it asks me whether to open it using the Yelp app or the browse

• derefr 11y ago
  That's yelp.com detecting your mobile browser and asking whether to redirect you to a URL using its private (yelp:// or somesuch) URL schema, which the app is then registered as the handler for. This, on the other hand, is Google sending you directly to a yelp://-or-somesuch URL. Basically, Google is taking charge of doing the client-negotiation step, so (if this catches on) sites don't have to worry about doing that redirect themselves any more.
  • mlex 11y ago
    On (newer versions of) iOS, you don't need to send someone to, say, yelp://rest_of_url to link them to the app anymore. In iOS 9 we have Universal App Links[0] that let you perform a redirect from an actual website link into your app. For example, if you have Twitter for iOS installed on iOS 9 and you click on a link to https://twitter.com https://twitter.com in a Google search result, you switch into the app's main screen immediately. [0]: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/General/Conceptual/AppSearch/UniversalLinks.html https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
• inquisitorial 11y ago
  +1 I fail to see the difference between this and deep linking within the app.