🐛 [firebase_dynamic_links] Enabling FlutterDeepLinkingEnabled in Info.plist file, Firebase dynamic links are handled as deep-links by default on iOS and Android

[Ayman-Barghout]

Bug report

Starting from version 3.0.0 the firebase_dynamic_links plugin started to handle dynamic links as deep-links by default on iOS, I tried on version 2.0.11 and it works normally but from version 3.0.0 onward - till latest version 4.3.6 this issue can be observed.

Steps to reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Run an app on the iOS simulator using version 3.0.0 or above (current version also works).
2. run the xcrun simctl openurl booted <dynamic_link> command
3. The dynamic link is treated as a deep-link even if it's handled in the onLink and getInitialLink

Expected behavior

The dynamic link should be only handled in the firebase_dynamic_links APIs (onLink and getInitialLink) and not handled by the OS as a deep-link AFAIK.

Sample project

I couldn't run the example project for firebase_dynamic_links but I guess it should be reproducible there, if not then please let me know so I can provide a really simple sample project.

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Additional context

I am using go_router in my project, I am not sure if that might cause this issue but I doubt it.

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Dart SDK 2.17.6
Flutter SDK 3.0.5
done_flutter 1.44.0+195

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[darshankawar]

Thanks for the detailed report @Ayman-Barghout

From plugin's change log for version 3.0.0, I see that only the Android minSdk version was updated and there were not any changes related to actual code. https://pub.dev/packages/firebase_dynamic_links/changelog#300

I tried the plugin's example on iOS, but didn't notice the behavior.

I am using go_router in my project

Can you try without it and see if you are still able to replicate the behavior ? If so, a minimal code sample would be good to analyze further.

[Ayman-Barghout]

Thanks for your sincere reply @darshankawar

I have always used ^3.0.0 so it could be a version after 3.0.0, 3.0.2 for instance, but we can address the latest version of firebase_dynamic_links.

I think I know why it is happening and it's not mainly because of go_router but when using Router and adding the deep-linking configuration:

<key>FlutterDeepLinkingEnabled</key>
<true/>

When we remove the above info.plist entry, everything works as expected - except for deep-linking 😅 -.

So, I think some interaction between Flutter's deep-linking and firebase_dynamic_links on the latest versions is causing this behavior, as on version ^2.0.0 this doesn't occur.

Related SO post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73262332/flutter-ios-firebase-dynamic-link-push-named-page-with-the-link-value

So the criteria for reproducing this issue:

1. Use MaterialApp.router.
2. Enable Flutter deep-linking for iOS
3. Use firebase_dynamic_links on latest version.
4. run the xcrun simctl openurl booted <dynamic_link> command

Thanks a lot for your patience and help!

[darshankawar]

Thanks for these details and analysis. Using steps to replicate above, I am seeing same behavior as reported, ie, the dynamic links are handled as deep links by default on iOS, when we enable Flutter deep-linking as mentioned above.

/cc @russellwheatley

[Ayman-Barghout]

Hello, thanks for the great work on FlutterFire packages, I don't mean to nag but this issue is keeping us away from using firebase_ui_auth or upgrading our firebase dependencies, are there any updates regarding it 😓?

[cedvdb]

I've the same issue on android, this does not seem to be specific to ios. @darshankawar have you tried on android ? It is achieved by adding this to android manifest under <activity>

            <meta-data android:name="flutter_deeplinking_enabled" android:value="true" />

We are using this to return to the application after a succesful payment with the bank (3DS2) which redirects with a custom scheme in order to not have the native "open this link with chome or app" dialog.

Removing deeplinking does not seem to be an option for us.

[blopker]

I've just ran into this issue as well. It seems like the deep linking plugin (flutter_deeplinking_enabled=true) captures all links, including Dynamic Links, and triggers a Navigation with the URL's path. It does this with all hostnames.

So, say I have link.example.com for my Dynamic Link hostname and app.example.com for deep linking. Going to link.example.com/dkjie8 triggers an app navigation to /dkjie8 AND causes firebase_dynamic_links to trigger. The navigation happens faster and the app crashes/404's before the app can handle the Dynamic Link properly. Going to app.example.com/screen navigates to /screen as expected.

I'm not sure how to workaround it or what the fix might be though.

[Ayman-Barghout]

@blopker for us, we have to keep the version to a really old one firebase_dynamic_links: ^2.0.1 which is less than ideal but works for us (even though we are eager to upgrade our firebase plugins, but are blocked due to this issue).

[blopker]

That's fair. Our solution was to just not use Dynamic Links. The login page on our web app has some minimal routing logic to direct people to get the Android or iOS app. Also not ideal, but deeps links are more important than dynamic links for us right now.

[cedvdb]

@blopker @Ayman-Barghout can anyone of you confirm this issue is also valid for android ? The title is misleading if that's the case.

[blopker]

Yes, this is also valid for Android.

[cedvdb]

@darshankawar Could you edit the title and labels to add platform android ? Sorry to bug everyone for that but I don't want this issue to be mislabeled and lose prioritization points as a result.

[russellwheatley]

I'm not sure how Firebase Dynamic Links is supposed to solve this problem. If you read Flutter's documentation here, it states:

If you have written a plugin to handle deep links, as described in “Deep Links and Flutter applications” (an article on Medium), it will continue to work until you opt-in to this behavior by adding FlutterDeepLinkingEnabled to Info.plist or flutter_deeplinking_enabled to AndroidManifest.xml, respectively.

We don't have input on how Flutter uses deep links, it is out of our control.

@Ayman-Barghout could you elaborate what you mean by this?

Starting from version 3.0.0 the firebase_dynamic_links plugin started to handle dynamic links as deep-links by default on iOS

I was under the impression Firebase iOS Dynamic Links has always used deep links? What was the alternative they were using?

Again, not sure this would be something we could change on FlutterFire (assuming there has been a shift to deep links as you mentioned), this would be an implementation change on the Firebase iOS SDK which FlutterFire is a wrapper around.

[Ayman-Barghout]

I'm not sure how Firebase Dynamic Links is supposed to solve this problem. If you read Flutter's documentation here, it states:

If you have written a plugin to handle deep links, as described in “Deep Links and Flutter applications” (an article on Medium), it will continue to work until you opt-in to this behavior by adding FlutterDeepLinkingEnabled to Info.plist or flutter_deeplinking_enabled to AndroidManifest.xml, respectively.

We don't have input on how Flutter uses deep links, it is out of our control.

@Ayman-Barghout could you elaborate what you mean by this?

Starting from version 3.0.0 the firebase_dynamic_links plugin started to handle dynamic links as deep-links by default on iOS

I was under the impression Firebase iOS Dynamic Links has always used deep links? What was the alternative they were using?

Again, not sure this would be something we could change on FlutterFire (assuming there has been a shift to deep links as you mentioned), this would be an implementation change on the Firebase iOS SDK which FlutterFire is a wrapper around.

I think you got a solid point, everything does work as expected since dynamic links are set up as deep links, maybe what we needed was more control over which domains/URLs to navigate to and which to not, but that's something that is handled by Flutter.

What we did is use uni_links for deep-linking and filter which domains/URLs we should route in-app, closing this issue as it's not related to FlutterFire.