Adding support for deep links

Deep links allow you to redirect users to specific parts of your application without having them go through all the intermediary screens. This technique is especially useful for marketing campaigns because it can boost user engagement while also providing a good user experience.

Deep links are usually incorporated within URI schemes or custom schemes. This allows you to configure anything from an image advertisement, text advertisement, or even a QR code that when clicked or scanned redirects you to a specific page of the app. If your app is configured to know how to handle such schemes, the user will be able to open that particular link with your application.

For example, say that for our Restaurants application, we start a marketing campaign where we include some advertisements on the internet that showcase some special restaurants. We configure the advertisements to be clickable and to redirect to the following link, which contains the ID of the...