Creating deep links for destinations

In Modern Android Development, deep links are very vital. A link that helps you navigate directly to a specific destination within an app is called a deep link. The Navigation component lets you create two types of deep links: explicit and implicit.

Compose navigation supports implicit deep links, which can be part of your Composable functions. It is also fair to mention there is no huge difference between how you would handle these using XML layouts.

Getting ready

Since we don’t have a deep link use case in our application, in this recipe, we will look into how we can utilize the knowledge by learning how to implement implicit deep links.

How to do it…

You can match deep links using a Uniform Resource Locator (URI), intent actions, or Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) types. Furthermore, you can easily specify multiple types that match for a deep link single but remember that the URI argument comparison is...