{"id":239708,"date":"2016-06-17T13:56:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T20:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-project&#038;p=239708"},"modified":"2022-01-30T11:51:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T19:51:51","slug":"ulink","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/ulink\/","title":{"rendered":"uLink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historically, mobile apps didn\u2019t have links equivalent to web deep links. Mobile deep links, introduced in recent years, don\u2019t provide the same user experience of web URLs because they\u2019re defined statically to navigate to a page for a given link, but not to dynamically generate a link for a given page. uLink is a new deep linking mechanism that brings the notion of web URLs to mobile apps. With uLink, users can bookmark links to app pages or search previously-seen pages with content of interest.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"uLink: User-defined deep links in mobile apps\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/CkEGtwtpomc?feature=oembed&rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Press Coverage: <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/06\/20\/microsoft-ulink\/\">Engadget<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/microsoft-ulink-mobile-deep-links\/43959\/\">GizMag<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/microsoft\/2016\/06\/21\/microsoft-experimenting-creating-links-every-screen-mobile-app-2\/#gref\">The Next Web<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.winbeta.org\/news\/microsoft-research-proposes-ulink-user-defined-deep-linking-new-video\">WinBeta<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/mspoweruser.com\/microsoft-research-project-ulink-brings-the-equivalent-of-web-urls-to-mobile-apps\/\">MSPoweruser<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>uLink is a new deep linking mechanism that brings the notion of web URLs to mobile apps. 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