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**DEPRECATED** Firebase App Indexing is no longer the recommended way of indexing content for display as suggested results in Google Search App. Click the tag to see a list of alternatives.

About Firebase App Indexing

Firebase App Indexing was a component of the Firebase suite of tools for cross-platform application development.

Android

Caution: The Google Search App for Android no longer uses local content indexed via Firebase App Indexing to provide results to users.

Android App Links are the recommended way of linking users directly from search results, websites and other apps to specific content within your app.

You may also be interested in:

  • App Search - high-performance on-device search
  • App Actions - let users launch and control Android apps with their voice, using Google Assistant.
  • Android Shortcuts - provide users with quick methods to perform an action or access content in your app.

iOS

Universal Links are the recommended way of linking users directly from search results, websites and other apps to specific content within your app.

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Android Studio only gives me SHA1, I need SHA256

I want to use assetlinks.json for appindexing. I am supposed to use a SHA256 fingerprint, but when I print out the signingReport in Android Studio, I only have SHA1. Can I use SHA1? If not, how can I get a SHA256 signed app? Using Manish Jain's…
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Android - Firebase App Indexing App not showing in google autocomplete suggestions

I am trying to implement Firebase App Indexing, while the task to update the indexable is showing success and the index is also shown in the In Apps tab after searching in Google App. From what I understand, the index should also show up in the Auto…
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Has anyone got Firebase app indexing to work?

After the implementation, I am able to successfully confirm that Google Bot can index my app through Android Studio testing (Tools > Android > Google App Indexing Test). And per Google Search Console, over 200 pages of my app have been indexed. But…
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Can you query Firebase App Indexing personal content?

I have an app that implements Firebase App Indexing. It also has its own full text search implementation. Google's is obviously better, and I'd love to kill the one I'm using in favor of theirs. Is it possible to query Firebase App Indexing for…
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Android deep link working only in some websites

I am using app indexing in my app but sometimes it is not receiving correctly the intents from Chrome. If I open the link from my production website, it is opened by chrome. So I have created a testing site which has the same code. However, in this…
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Firebase App Indexing Privacy and Collected Data

According to Google docs for Firebase App Indexing: https://firebase.google.com/docs/app-indexing/ "A note about privacy: The personal content index only exists on the user’s device. None of the user’s personal content is uploaded to Google…
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What is the purpose of "android-app://" links, how should they be structured and how do I test them?

Background: There is a lot of information out there about App Indexing, app links, deep links, deep app links and whatnot - but almost all of them just rehash the same information without explaining the purpose of the different parts, using…
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I don't fully understand app indexing

Okay, so I get that if I have a website and an app that roughly displays the same content, app indexing can be used to open links to the website in the app instead (if the user has it installed). To do this, one specifies deep links in the web…
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GSC Message: Fix deep links for Android app. Error "Intent URI not supported"

[Continued from https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/wZEY_QZicxg;context-place=forum/webmasters] Google Search Console Message: This week we received a GSC Message stating that the deep links are not correctly configured. IMG1…
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Android firebase app indexing search suggestions update perid

As far as i can see there is gap between app with integrated firebase app indexing installed, and moment when indexed content appear as suggestions when user type query in google search bar. I can't figure out how it works and what is the period of…
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Android App Indexing - > FirebaseAppIndexingInvalidArgumentException

Hej! I'm trying to implement app indexing content and I've started with the app-indexing Google codelabs sample. Running this code Indexable recipeToIndex = new Indexable.Builder() .setName(mRecipe.getTitle()) …
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difference between firebase app indexing and app links

I am working on one project in that, I need to implement something so that when user search for our website it shows a icon of app besides name of the website in google app. Further more user can redirect directly to app if he has installed the…
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App Indexing: We can’t find the APK for Android app

I am trying to do Android App Indexing. I followed all steps on Google documentation. When I test the implementation, it says Google did not find App content associated with the URL. APP URL: android-app://com.package.name/http/www.example.com Web…
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Firebase App Indexing and Gboard sticker packs: hasSticker vs isPartOf vs partOf

In this Firebase App Indexing sample code for stickers and sticker packs there seem to be two different methods to associate a "Sticker" with a "StickerPack". In method 1, you create a StickerPack and then associate the stickers with it by calling…
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GSC - Intent URI not supported -- Yes i didnt created the intent for that URL

Today i had received 7000+ "Intent URI not supported" errors in GSC. The issue is that i haven't mapped the google crawled web url in my app manifest file (as i do not have the corresponding page in app) NOR did i placed the link rel="alternate"…
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