Big Heegner points, generalized Heegner classes and $p$-adic $L$-functions in the quaternionic setting

The goal of this paper is to study the $p$-adic variation of Heegner points and generalized Heegner classes for ordinary families of quaternionic modular forms. We compare classical specializations of big Heegner points (introduced in the quaternionic setting by one of the authors in collaboration with S. Vigni) with generalized Heegner classes, extending a result of Castella to the quaternionic setting. We also compare big Heegner points with $p$-adic families of generalized Heegner classes, introduced in this paper in the quaternionic setting, following works by Jetchev--Loeffler--Zerbes, \cite{JLZ}, B\"{u}y\"{u}kboduk--Lei and Ota. These comparison results are obtained by exploiting the relation between $p$-adic families of generalized Heegner classes and $p$-families of $p$-adic $L$-functions, introduced in this paper following constructions of Brooks and Burungale-Castella-Kim.