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App lifecycle and system

Launch options and cold start routing

Tapping a push while the app is closed should take the user to that chat room, but sometimes it stops on the home screen or the room appears behind the login screen. How would you design routing for a cold start?

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On a cold start, store the destination as a pending deep link and let the router handle it in one pass once authentication and the initial data are ready.

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