Increasing your app's visibility with Universal Links
A Universal Link is very similar to a deep link. Deep linksallow apps to link users straight into a certain section of an application. Before Universal Links, developers had to use a custom URL scheme to create their deep links.
You might have seen a URL with a custom scheme in the past. These URLs are easily recognized and look as follows:
mustc://FamilyMember/jack
It's evident that this isn't a regular web URL because web URLs start with a scheme of either http:// or https://. An application can register itself as capable of opening URLs with a certain scheme. So, the MustC app we've been working on could manifest itself as a handler of mustc://URLs.
However, there are a couple of downsides to this approach. First and foremost, this URL isn't shareable at all. You can't send this URL to any friends that don't have the same app installed. If you were to send this URL to somebody and they didn't have the corresponding app installed, they...