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Newsletters with smart links are a great to re-engage your users and drive traffic from e-mails to your app. But smart links must be created beforehand to be shared later. Hence, sending thousands of e-mails would require you to generate a lot of smart links, where most would probably never be used.

Newsletter

We are introducing Lazy Smart Links for Newsletters that will generate smart links on-demand. Tapping on a lazy smart link triggers the creation of smart link that will follow your pre-configured templates and drive the user to your app.

Creating a lazy smart link is extremely easy. All you need to do is to create an HTML hyperlink that follows a specific format and includes the encoded mobile deep link that will drive the user to your view inside your app, in the uri query parameter.

<a href="http://yourapp.hoko.link/lazy?uri=products%2F">Buy Now</a>

You can find more information about Lazy Smart Links in its reference section.

When the user opens your app through a smart link, it’s up to you to present the appropriate view within your app. You also have to define what are the deep linking routes that your app is going to support.

Map routes using the deep linking module’s mapRoute:toTarget method inside the application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: of your application AppDelegate subclass.

[[Hoko deeplinking] mapRoute:@"products/:product_id"
                    toTarget:^(HOKDeeplink *deeplink) {
  NSString* productId = deeplink.routeParameters[@"product_id"];
  // Do something when deeplink is opened
}];
Hoko.deeplinking().mapRoute("products/:product_id", toTarget: {
  (deeplink: HOKDeeplink) -> Void in
    if let productId = deeplink.routeParameters?["product_id"] {
      // Do something when deep link is opened
    }
})

This will map a products/:product_id route to an executable target block that will always be executed when a deep link matching the route is opened in the user’s device, e.g. opening hoko://products/amazing-case. You can find more information about Route Mapping in the documentation.

Further more, we provide utility methods to help you handling smart links, like presenting the correct view or setting the root view, based on the route parameters, query parameters or metadata. Check the documentation about Deeplink Utilities to know more.

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