If you came here looking for a simple solution to the problem of tracking Universal Link clicks, let’s get the bad news out of the way: it is almost impossible…
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Picture this: you want to get started with Universal Links on iOS and the documentation at Apple has asked you to create and host an AASA file. So, what is…
Over the years, despite continuous design improvements, iOS apps have been treated largely as data silos and have been unable to use data outside of the confines of their sandboxes….
When iOS 9.2 was released on Dec 8th, thousands of app developers suddenly realized their app experience was broken. A small change in Safari’s handling of deep links resulted in…
As of iOS 9.2, released December 8th, 2015, Apple has sounded the death knell for URI scheme based redirects, the standard for deep linking for the last seven years….
Core Spotlight Framework was released in early September 2015 to much excitement. It was the first time in history that developers would be able to list pure app content in…
Ad blocking on iOS has been a hot topic recently because new features in iOS 9 allow third-party apps to block ads in Safari. The implications for publishers are huge:…
All mobile developers want the same thing: to increase the number of people that download their app. Growth hacking is still everyone’s top priority. (Well, except for Bing Gordon. He…
iOS 9.0 brought a lot of really cool features, namely Universal Linking and Core Spotlight Search, that every mobile developer should be aware of and experiment with. However, with new…
This was originally posted on July 20th, 2015 but has since been updated with the latest information. Now that Apple no longer supports URI schemes for deep linking, developers must…