react-native-deep-linking | Simple route-matching library to handle deep links | iOS library

As per google docs:

The functionality has changed slightly in Chrome for Android, versions 25 and later. It is no longer possible to launch an Android app by setting an iframe's src attribute. For example, navigating an iframe to a URI with a custom scheme such as paulsawesomeapp:// will not work even if the user has the appropriate app installed. Instead, you should implement a user gesture to launch the app via a custom scheme, or use the “intent:”.

You can read more about how intents work here. However, the tutorial you followed, for deeplinking will work on other browsers which are not chrome or chrome based.

Your issue is caused by the fact the deeplinks work differently on iOS and Android.

It is true that on iOS you can open a deeplink by typing the link into the browser and it will cause the app to open.

However, for Android to open a deeplink you need to one of three things as it will not open from typing the link into the browser.

The first method is picked exactly from the second tutorial that you mentioned. This is to use the Edit Configurations options in Android Studio.

That is all we need as far as configuration goes. To test this out, open Android Studio. Open Run -> Edit Configurations and change the launch options to URL, passing in the following url: peopleapp://people/1

The second option is to it from a URL that is embeded in a webpage. The URL should be embeded in an a tag using a href in the following way

click me

You then browse to the webpage and click the link. That should open the deeplink.

You can use a third party application from the play store that will allow you to open the deeplink. There are many to choose from. You can always give https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manoj.dlt&hl=en_US a try it seems to have good reviews.

Looking at your package.json it looks like all you have done is upgrade the version of react-native to the latest version.

Unfortunately it is not as simple as changing the version number in the package.json. You don't state which version of react-native you were using before, but as you are using React 16.2.0 I would hazard a guess that you were on react-native 0.52 or 0.53.

To upgrade you should look at the diff that is provided between your version and the version that you upgrading to. rn-diff-purge shows the changes between that need to be performed. For upgrading 0.52.0 to 0.57.8 you can see the changes here, for 0.53.0 to 0.57.8 you can see the changes here.

You can check the changelog https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-releases/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md to see more specific requirements for upgrading between the versions.

It is also worthwhile looking at https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/upgrading for tips on how to perform an upgrade.