cordova-plugin-open-app-link

Android and iOS

A Cordova plugin for opening a link only if there's an app installed to handle it. If there's no app that opens the link, it will fail. This is intended for use with cordova-plugin-safariviewcontroller, which has the unforunate side-effect of not respecting app deep links.

Install

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-open-app-link

Usage

OpenAppLink.open(url, function(opened) {
    if (opened) {
        //Opened link in native app successfully.
    } else {
        //No app installed to handle the link. Here you should fallback to browser.
    }
}, function(error) {console.error(error)})

Note: If your app is configured to handle deep links/univeral links, on Android they will attempt to open and this will return true, and on iOS this will always return false.

How this works

It's explained for Android here:

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/android/custom-tabs/best-practices/

https://gist.github.com/andreban/1780525015f6449867a3

For iOS:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiapplication/1648685-openurl