We have an app that was being built and distributed to TestFlight for a while. Everything was working fine. But then for multiple reasons we’ve decided to migrate the distribution tooling to Firebase App Tester, which requires a different export method when compiling the .ipa.
We’ve made the changes and we’ve configured a CI/CD pipeline using fastlane to build the app and deploy it automatically to firebase. In summary, we have something like the following:
# build the flutter code to native code
$ flutter build ipa --release --export-method=ad-hoc
# archive to generate the .ipa file (simplified command, we setup it inside the Fastfile)
$ fastlane run gym export_method:"ad-hoc" export_team_id:"<team-id>" skip_build_archive:true
This code works fine, the .ipa file is generated and uploaded to firebase via the firebase_app_distribution lane.
The problem appears after downloading the build from the AppTester app, which for some reason does not respond to universal links anymore – for instance, a link like http://example.com/some-internal-route that used to open the app and redirect for the same code distributed via TestFlight, is not even opening the app anymore.
Has anyone experienced this yet?