Using URI scheme that starts with `fb`

[Ranhiru]

I'm working on a project and trying to debug issues with Android deep links not working. The URI scheme that's set is something like fbXXXXXXXXXX:// where the Xs are numbers (E.g fb1234567890://)

Looking at the code in both the iOS repo and Android repo, it looks like these are special URIs that are ignored by Branch.

Is my thinking correct and is this one of the reasons why the deep links are sometimes ignored ?

[echo-branch]

Ah yea. We try to prevent use of uri schemes that large companies tend to use to avoid conflicts. For example, facebook uses fb to prefix uris.

[Ranhiru]

Thank you!

Do you happen to know if the URL filtering happens differently when the app is not in the background (closed) ? Because this happens only when a deep link is clicked when the app is in the background. Otherwise, the link is detected correctly

[agerstner-branch]

You could try this:

Put a breakpoint here and run the various use cases to see if it is called.