Cold Start

[myrsk]

When the app is in the background and I open a deeplink, it brings the app up and goes to the page requested.

this.platform.ready().then(() => {
      this.statusBar.overlaysWebView(false);
      this.statusBar.backgroundColorByHexString('#222');

      this.splashScreen.hide();

      this.setRootPage();
      handleBranch();
    });

this.platform.resume.subscribe(() => {
      handleBranch();
    });

const handleBranch = () => {
      // only on devices
      if (!this.platform.is('cordova')) { return }
      const Branch = window['Branch'];
      Branch.initSession(data => {
        if (data['+clicked_branch_link']) {
          // read deep link data on click
          //alert('Deep Link Data: ' + JSON.stringify(data));
          this.nav.push(data['page'],{itemId:data['id']});
        }
      });
    }

However, if i force quit the app, and then click on a deeplink, it opens the app and stays on the root page.

Any ideas?

[thkuberlin]

did you try to look at the outputs given with Branch.setDebug(true) before your initSession code?

[myrsk]

There seems to be no errors.

When i put the line below, i actually get the alert just fine.

alert('Deep Link Data: ' + JSON.stringify(data));

So i presume the following code doesnt execute in the order set. How do i wait for the top before running the second? confused

this.setRootPage();
handleBranch()

[myrsk]

Just tried to test it on an android device, and works fine - even on a cold start.

So the issue remains just for ios.

[myrsk]

Okay, in case anyone faces the same issue. Just delay branch in this.platform.ready. I have delayed it by a second - since everything is async, I do not think it will have an impact. I have tested it and it works fine.

handleBranch();

[ethanneff]

Hello,

Good find and good solution. It appears this.setRootPage(); is an Ionic method which creates a new instance of the page. This method must have some funky behavior interally which creates a race condition with the Branch initialization.

Another solution besides timeouts would be to place the handleBranch() within the done parameter of setRoot() (docs). However, this depends on which version of the Ionic SDK you are using.

Thanks,