Random Thoughts

What’s New in App Clips

These are light versions of your app, allows users to try your app without installing

There are three

New size limit

  • Need to be small to ensure instant experience
  • You can now go up to 50MB size limit, 
  • If you want to use QR codes or NFC tags, then you still have to be limited to 16MB
  • If you target iOS 15 or earlier still limited to 10MB

Default app Clip links

  • Many require only a single experience , you must provide a website to host the recognized data.
  • Configure and link your App Clips from WWDC2020 for more information
  • Default links are Apple generated URLs so you can be invoked without any setup on your end.
  • You can get information from this with NSUserActivity

Invoke From your App

  • Now it can be invoked from your app, so you can support things like food pickup in a messaging app.
  • Use Link Presentation API – via LPMetaDataProvider request
  • Or use the default App Clip link 
  • This linking behavior does not require going thru Safari

Michael Rowe

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