How to generate a dynamic link for a specific post in android firebase

Question

am developing an e-commerce app with android and firebase. I understand how to create dynamic link with firebase console. However I want to be able to create dynamic links for each product when a user click on the share button. I mean when a user clicks on the share button they should be able to share a link that contains some details of that specific product so that when someone clicks on the link they can be taken to the product details activity if they have the app installed. I have tried to look at the documentation but am not able to find what I want.l exactly. Can someone help me?

Answer 1

Firebase Dynamic Links is the framework to deliver your deep link to iOS App, Android App or your website. Question you asking is about deep link itself. That's why this is not covered in Firebase documentation. As documentation assumes that developers aware how to create deep links.

Let me guess how you can accomplish sharing specific products.

In order to display products in your App you probably have some way of identifying the products. For example, Amazon have product id. In this deep link https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FRDUZXM , B00FRDUZXM is the product id.

Assuming you have product id's as well. In this case when user want to share the product, you creating deep link like: https://your_company_name.com/product?id=XYZ , where XYZ is product id. Then you wrapping the deep link in the Firebase Dynamic Link. Then user will share the dynamic link via Facebook, email etc.

On receiving side, you receive Firebase Dynamic Link according to Firebase docs, unpack deep link, extract product id from deep link and display the product.

Makes sense?