App Links developer tools

You can use these tools to simplify and manage your App Links.

Android Studio App Links Assistant

The Android Studio App Links Assistant is a plugin within Android Studio that helps with management, creation and validation of App Links, it includes:

  • An overview of all the existing deep links in the app and their validation statuses.
  • Detailed view of the misconfiguration for each link and guidance on how to fix the issues.
  • Automatically fix the configuration issues in their existing deeplinks.
  • Automatic generation of the assetlinks.json file (doesn't support dynamic rules yet)
  • Validate the web configuration for each deep link (uses your assetlinks.json file, hosted on your website or domain).
  • Wizard to create new App Links.

How to access the tool?

In Android Studio, click App Links Assistant under Tools

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Play Developer Console Deep Link Page

You can also manage and verify deep links through the Play Console. Once you upload your app, the Console provides a dedicated dashboard (under Grow > Deep links) to help you create and verify your App Links:

  • Get an overview of existing setup + guidance on how to fix issues
  • Surface missing W2AC URLs that should be implemented as DLs
  • Push deep links app fixes live without publishing a new app release

Play console screenshot

It also displays an overview of deep links and configuration errors, with information on how to fix them.

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For more information, see Verify and maintain deep links.

How to access the tool?

Visit here: https://play.google.com/console/about/deeplinks/

Flutter Deep Link Validator

The Flutter Deeplinking Validator empowers Flutter developers to:

  • Verify the setup of deep links for their Android apps.
  • Provides a detailed view of misconfigured deep links and instructions on how to fix them
  • Provides code snippets to fix issues in the app file
  • Automatically generates assetlinks.json file to fix any issues

For more information, see Validate deep links.