An App to Facilitate Connectivity Across Apps

Connectivity on the Internet is one of the things that makes the platform so dynamic. However, within apps, the Internet has been partially fenced in, so that it can work well in one specific way. This causes a stumbling block for interconnection, which the App Links project hopes to remove.

App Links is an open source attempt at building a better infrastructure for diverting users from one app to another. If the project, led by Facebook of all companies, is a success, then users could click a movie link in a review app and find out if that movie is playing at a theater near them.

“Our main goal is to help build the fabric of the mobile ecosystem, similar to the way the Web works today,” Vijay Shankar, project overseer for App Links at Facebook, told journalists.

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