Table of Contents
1. What is this?
This tool is to generate generic assetlinks.json and apple-app-site-association
to add capabilities for Android and iOS app Universal Links.
You can use it here: https://assetlink.m8zn.work
2. Motivation
As we all know that Firebase Dynamic Links is discontinued and will shut down on Aug 25th, 2025. At first, I’d like to create its clone, but after seeing the condition, I think many people doesn’t really need a cross product of shortlinking and universal link handler, some of them need to connect a real website to app when clicked. So, I decide to create this config generator instead, and let them do anything to their website if accessible from device that doesn’t support or doesn’t have the app installed.
Flutter references:
3. Future Plan
Currently the tool is very minimalist, you just go to the page, insert your app, copy/download the generated file.
There are some improvement that’s planned on my head (not sure when to continue):
- Autosave to local storage, which can be used to continue unfinished information
- Save/Load system, which will be able to save and share configuration to other people, so those other people can load it back into the tool using different machine.
