We’re writing a cross-platform app in .net maui.

We want the user to be able to send a (deep) link via text that will result in the recipient’s device opening the app if it’s installed or redirect to the app in the App Store or Play Store.

From what We can see the only approach is to have a web service and create a link to that service which results in the service calling back to the device to start the app and if the device responds indicating that that fails then it sends an app store download link.

Is this the only/best way of doing that?