I'm developing a social android trivia game. When a user challenges to a game a friend, who doesn't have my trivia game installed, i'd like to send him a custom url to download the app from the market containing a parameter of the inviting user id.
when the app is run for the first time, i need to be able to receive the parameter passed to the market, in order to identify the user and show him the game he was challenged to. i couldn't figure out how to do this with app links and didn't find any appropriate example.
any help would be greatly welcomed! Thanks, Ido
In Android, a deep link is a link that takes you directly to a specific destination within an app. The Navigation component lets you create two different types of deep links: explicit and implicit.
To send data to the Android Market, you have to build an uri like this one:
market://details?id=my.package.name&referrer=someDataToTransfer
To get this data back, you should implement an INSTALL_REFERRER
Receiver.
<receiver android:name="my.package.MyReceiver" android:exported="true"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER"></action> </intent-filter> </receiver>
Here is a short tutorial that will explain you how to fully implement this solution.
And if you want to test it without writting any code, checkout my app: Install Referrer
on GitHub or on the Play Store
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