When opening a URL in the browser, it redirects to the app. That process is not ideal, it opens a full functioning page before it redirects.
Can you take som inspiration from Slack? They load a lightweight page, that immediately forwards and leaves a link on that page to continue in the browser if you want.
For me it serves to purposes:
  1. Faster opening of links in the app
  2. Less confusion of two pages open with the same content, one in the browser and one in the app