Wordpress-android: Site Creation: Fix deep linking in first-post congratulations email.

[diegoreymendez]

Description:

After creating a WP.com site, and right after publishing the first post, the user is getting a mail in their inbox titled: "Congratulations on your first post!".

This email has a blue button to start a new post.

We need to ensure both this link is opened by the App.

Images:

Corresponding iOS issue:

https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/issues/11693

[maxme]

I thought a bit about this one and we can't deep link a standard url like https://ddancestore.wordpress.com, this would open every wpcom site in the app. We need to add something to add a parameter to the URL (and update the email template). For example in this email the link to ddancestore.wordpress.com could be https://ddancestore.wordpress.com/?from=email

Also I'm not sure what's the link on "Start a New Post" action (can you post it here?), but if it's could have https://wordpress.com/post/ddancestore.wordpress.com or something like that, it should be deeplink-able in the apps.

Last question: should all links in this email deep linked? For example our plans feature in the app is pretty bad, we should open the Web page instead.

[maxme]

I created a new site and posted a new post to get that email, some notes:

• The link on the "Start a New Post" button redirects to https://wordpress.com/post/4poniessss.home.blog (which could be deeplinked in the app).
• I created a site with a free custom domain 4poniessss.home.blog, for some reason, it's not linked in the email, see here. I don't know if the email template was changed. If we want to be able to catch any kind of custom domains (free or not), the link must be something like https://wordpress.com/view/4poniessss.home.blog and not a direct link.
• The plan link redirects to https://wordpress.com/plans/, IMO it should redirect to https://wordpress.com/plans/4poniessss.home.blog and should not be deep linked in the app.

[diegoreymendez]

From what I'm reading about Universal links in iOS, I believe the same approach should work there.

Also - the plans link should NOT redirect to the App, that's correct.

[maxme]

Note, it's easy to test URL intents with adb:

adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.VIEW \
    -c android.intent.category.BROWSABLE \
    -d https://wordpress.com/post/ddancestore.wordpress.com

[diegoreymendez]

Updated the issue description, we only need to ensure "New Post" deep links into the Apps.