I.3 Create Dynamic Links

Create Dynamic Links

There are four ways you can create Dynamic Links:

1. Using the Firebase console. This is useful if you're creating one-off links to share on social media.
2. Using the REST API. This is the preferred way to dynamically create links in your app for user-to-user sharing or in any situation that requires many links. You can track the performance of Dynamic Links created with the REST API in the Firebase console.
3. Using the built-in link generater method in the ANE. There is a build method in the ANE which you can use to easily create dynamic links supported on iOS/Android with all the other optional parameters required for analytics or social media sharing.
4. Manually. If you don't need to track click data in the Firebase console and you don't care if the links are long, you can manually construct Dynamic Links using URL parameters, and by doing so, avoid an extra network round trip.

Using the REST API

This is fully explained in Firebase docs. Read here for more information.

Manually constructing a URL

This is fully explained in Firebase docs. Read here for more information.

Using the ANE built-in deeplink generator

You can use this approach to easily build dynamic links on the fly inside your app.

• Set your deeplink parameters for: Android/iOS/Social Media/Analytics or even create invitation IDs.
• call the build method.
• You can shorten your links using the toMakeShort method.

Before you can gerenare a dynamic link using the ANE, you need to set webApiKey. This information can be found inside your Firebase Console.

// init FirebaseCore first by passing true as an argument so the ANE can prepare itself for dynamic links
var isConfigFound:Boolean = Firebase.init(true);

if (isConfigFound)
{
	// Then set the WebApiKey
	Firebase.getConfig().webApiKey = "AIzbSyDvWwo5ATJ3pPl5YG1MHlQsikuodVzdehQ";
}

Now you're ready to call the build method.

// optional: set Android parameters
var androidParams:AndroidParams = new AndroidParams();
androidParams.apn = "air." + NativeApplication.nativeApplication.applicationID;
androidParams.amv = 3;
// other parameters...

// optional: set iOS parameters
var iosParams:IosParams = new IosParams();
iosParams.ibi = NativeApplication.nativeApplication.applicationID;
iosParams.isi = "1234567890";
// other parameters...

// optional: set Social Media parameters
var socialMediaParams:SocialMediaParams = new SocialMediaParams();
socialMediaParams.st = "my Social Media title";
socialMediaParams.sd = "my Social Media description";
// other parameters...
				
// add optional Analytics params: http://myflashlab.github.io/asdoc/com/myflashlab/air/extensions/firebase/dynamicLinks/AnalyticsParams.html
var analyticsParams:AnalyticsParams = new AnalyticsParams();
				
// add optional otherPlatform params: http://myflashlab.github.io/asdoc/com/myflashlab/air/extensions/firebase/dynamicLinks/OtherPlatformParams.html
var otherPlatformParams:OtherPlatformParams = new OtherPlatformParams();
				
// add optional navigation params: http://myflashlab.github.io/asdoc/com/myflashlab/air/extensions/firebase/dynamicLinks/NavigationParams.html
var navigationParams:NavigationParams = new NavigationParams();
				
// first create your URL Prefix from your Firebase Console: https://console.firebase.google.com/project/_/durablelinks/links/
var deepLink:String = DynamicLinks.build(
						"YOUR_URL_PREFIX.page.link",
						"https://www.your_domain.com/deeplinks",
						androidParams,
						iosParams,
						socialMediaParams,
						analyticsParams,
						otherPlatformParams,
						navigationParams,
						"MY_INVITATION_ID");
				
trace(deepLink);


// to make the link look nicer, you can make it short like this:
DynamicLinks.toMakeShort(deepLink, function ($link:String, $raw:String):void
{
	trace("$raw = " + $raw);

	if($link)
	{
		trace("$link = " + $link);
	}
});