How to display iOS app's deep links on email as links

Question

I'm using deep linking for my react-native app to let user click on a link to open my app and perform some actions.

My problem here is when I send email (using <a href=""> tags and send the body as HTML) to user with these deep links (e.g myapp://profile?userId=123456), they are recognized as text instead of links by email clients, so at the moment my app users can't press on the "links" to open the app.

Answer 1

I did some research and it turns out email clients like Gmail don't like links with abnormal protocol such as myapp:// and they will strip out those links from href attribute. My solution is to use another link which will eventually redirect the user to the deep link, for example: https://api.myapp.com/redirect?url={encoded-deep-link}