What is a Deep Link?

A Deep Link is a URL link that is generated, when anyone clicks on that link our app will be open with a specific activity or a screen. Using this URL we can send a message to our app with parameters. In WhatsApp, we can generate a deep link to send a message to a phone number with some message in it. Deep links are used to open your app’s specific screen with a URL link. 

What are We going to Build in this Article? 

We will be building a simple application in which we will be creating a deep link and on clicking on that link we will be passing our message to our app and displaying that message in a text view. A sample video is given below to get an idea about what we are going to do in this article.

Deep Linking is one of the most important features that is used by various apps to gather data inside their apps in the form of a URL link. So it becomes helpful for the users from other apps to easily share the data with different apps. In this article, we will take a look at the implementation of deep links in our Android App.