How to display iOS app's deep links on email as links

Question

I'm using deep linking for my react-native app to let user click on a link to open my app and perform some actions.

My problem here is when I send email (using <a href=""> tags and send the body as HTML) to user with these deep links (e.g myapp://profile?userId=123456), they are recognized as text instead of links by email clients, so at the moment my app users can't press on the "links" to open the app.

Lawless

Send HTML email with explicit <a href=""> tags? – Garv

Yes @ceejayoz, I was using email with explicit <a href=""> tag and sending the email body as HTML. Edited the question – Lawless

Answer 1

I did some research and it turns out email clients like Gmail don't like links with abnormal protocol such as myapp:// and they will strip out those links from href attribute. My solution is to use another link which will eventually redirect the user to the deep link, for example: https://api.myapp.com/redirect?url={encoded-deep-link}

Lawless

Answer 2

I think there is nothing wrong with your app but the issue is with the email client which sends the email as a plain text. Many clients don't send custom html code as an email. Thunderbird can send it though.

Protectionist