Saturday, 16 October 2021

Branch.io deferred deep link missing data after install

I'm trying to get deferred deep links working on Android. I added a test device in the dashboard & reset the device data and made sure the app is uninstalled. When I click a branch.io link, it takes me to the play store as expected. I then launch the app from Android Studio onto the phone, then the logs say that Branch SDK sent a request to https://api2.branch.io/v1/install, but the problem is the response doesn't contain the original link, query params, or key value pairs I set in the dashboard. This is the JSONObject I'm receiving in onInitFinished:

{"+match_guaranteed":true,"link_click_id":"976953359423305632","+clicked_branch_link":true,"+click_timestamp":1634196720,"+is_first_session":true,"utm_source":"test-referrer"}

Where is all the other information? This doesn't include the original link, the key-value pairs, tags, etc.

For a comparison, this is what I receive in the iOS app:

["$ios_passive_deepview": "branch_passive_default", "source": "test-referrer", "+is_first_session": 1, "~channel": test-referrer, "$matching_ttl_s": 7200, "~id": 976763609660742721, "~creation_source": 1, "$one_time_use": 0, "~marketing": 1, "~referring_link": "https://myapp.test-app.link/test-referrer", "~feature": "test", "+click_timestamp": 1634249299, "+match_guaranteed": 0, "$og_description": "My app description", "$og_title": "MyApp", "+clicked_branch_link": 1, "$marketing_title": "Test Referral Link", "~tags": ["test-referrer"], "~campaign": "test"]

If I rotate the phone to recreate the Activity or reopen the app a single time, it then sends a request to https://api2.branch.io/v1/open and returns all the info I expected initially. How do I get the information after installing the app?

I'm currently testing with myapp.test-app.link, and I call Branch.enableTestMode() before Branch.getAutoInstance(this) in my custom Application class's onCreate(). I also tried with a live link and got the same result.

These are the libraries I'm using in build.grade:

implementation 'io.branch.sdk.android:library:5.0.13'
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-appindexing:20.0.0'
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads-identifier:17.1.0'
implementation 'androidx.browser:browser:1.3.0'

I've also set up app links and the uri scheme in the dashboard as well as in the app. Using getFirstReferringParams() and getLatestReferringParams() on the first session after installing doesn't help either.

UPDATE: Repeating the exact same testing process I described above, now the JSONObject that gets passed into onInitFinished has even less information and is claiming that I'm not clicking a branch link:

{"+clicked_branch_link":false,"+is_first_session":true}

And getFirstReferringParams() returns an empty json object. I'm about to start looking for an alternative at this rate.



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