Using a mobile app, it is possible to "Cast" media from your mobile app to a Roku device on the same network. I do not understand the mechanism being used which allows a remote device (YouTube Android app for example) to cause the selected Roku to open the YouTube channel and start playing the video.
I have looked though the Roku developer documentation and am unable to locate any way to launch a channel without the user choosing that channel.
This is one way of doing it:
Use the External Control
API
to discover the Roku device(s).
Use the
query/apps
command to ensure that the app you're targeting is installed
and/or to obtain the app id. You could also use the
install/appID
command if you know the app id and you discovered that the app is
not installed.
Use the
launch/appID
to open the app and deep link to specific content. The url should
look something like this
http://<device-ip>:8060/launch/<your-app-id>?contentId=<movie-id-in-your-api>&mediaType=movie.
Quick note, the install/appID command also launches the app after
it's installed the same way the launch/appID command would.
Handle the deep link in your Roku app.
Example:
sub main(args as dynamic)
contentID = args.contentID
mediaType = args.mediaType
if contentID <> invalid and mediaType <> invalid
// Either store the parameters for later use in the app, or make the
// requests to your content API right here.
end if
end sub
More details on Deep Linking here.
Adding to the Alejandro Cotilla answer, You can check some simple implementation of the External Control API here on this repo.
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My question is a follow up to this question.
Let's assume I have an Android Tv stick, I also am the vendor. There are 3rd party apps like Netflix, Prime, etc. I want to access the channels provided via TvProvider or ContentResolver. As pointed out in one comment:
apps vendors signs with the same key as an AOSP itself
placed them in a special folder - only vendors of devices can do it
or you, but only on rooted devices
How are my possibilities for the options above?
Using one of the proposed options you will be able to get all channels from the TvProvider inside the apps with signature /signatureOrSystem protection level. I don't know the specifics but I assume they may be different for different ROMs you may use. You will be able to retrieve the data from TvProvider the same way you are able to do it in your own app - this answer has links to examples from Android system app.
You will be able to render Rows from the data via leanback library in your own app(I don't know whether it should be a launcher or just an app). After the user by clicking on a card will enter the app that provided the content and view it there. You will not be able to view the videos inside your own app even if it is a system one because you would have to have access to the backend of the app that provided the media and that information is not stored in the TvProvider. The media inside a TvProvider is rather a simple link to a content page inside the other app.
There is plenty of info online about modifying ROMs, creating signatureOrSystem apps I cannot dive a specific link because I cannot verify its validity, because I haven't tried to do such things with TvProvider in specifics and Android OS in general(except for the root and disassembling and modifying already existing apps from the device vendor - also plenty info online).
I want let users view the Weight section of Apple's Health app to allow them to see detailed data, etc. I manage to open the Health app via the URL scheme x-apple-health://, but I would like to send them directly to the right place, e.g. x-apple-health://HealthData/measurements/Weight. I have had no success after trying different paths that made some sense.
Anyone has a reference on this?
Apple has not documented the x-apple-health:// scheme for use by apps. Attempting to use it is like using SPI - even if you find something that works now, it is likely to break in a future version of iOS. You should file a Radar with Apple to request an API for this purpose.
I am not able to find a way in order to recieve referral code from the Google Conversion Tracking. What are the steps that need to be followed? It is simpler in android, while I couldnt find a direct way to implement it in iOS.
In case of Android play store link look like this: http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=&referrer=guid%3D%guid%
As you can see referrer parameter at the end of url. Once app is installed in device then play store will send this parameter to app using INSTALL_REFERRER broadcast receiver. We can use this parameter.
Objective: i want to fetch my custom parameter(referrer) from iTunes link upon installation of my application in device.
iTunes links look somethings like this:
https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/complete-gym-guide-lite/id550449574?mt=8
If i append my parameter say(&referrer=xyz)at the end and i open this url in ios safari browser then it will prompt to download the application.
Confusion: will app store send my parameter(referrer) to my application on launch so that i can fetch it in my application and use it.
In case of Android play store link look like this: http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=&referrer=guid%3D%guid%
As you can see referrer parameter at the end of url. Once app is installed in device then play store will send this parameter to app using INSTALL_REFERRER broadcast receiver. We can use this parameter.
What i tried OR Other people doing for conversion tracking: Other people are simply sending static data to their server at the first time opening of app and maintain a flag in NSDefault to make sure that app does not send same data again. I can also do the same as well as alternate ways suggested in below links but i want to do something with custom parameter.
I have already seen below links:
iOS - track which ad campaigns my installs are coming from
Tracking iOS installs from multiple marketing sources
Please help me out.
As #Aditya said, for now, Apple is not sending any referrer (or params) from iTunes to installation.
The only way you have it's to use a third party sdk to get your installations.
I have been working on a own sdk to get this but the way to get any info it's really hard and not really confident to use it. So endly we used some third party which are using many techniques to getting this (as fingerprint data, App2App methods, etc...)
I have tested appsflyer sdk and facebook sdk, they work as expected, use this or any else you prefer.
Hope this helps
I want to share a link from my app using other applications installed on my iPhone such as Gmail, Facebook, DropBox, WhatsApp etc. In android there is a straight way to do so, just fire an intent and it automatically shows the installed apps through which we can share whatever we want. Is there any such way in iPhone ?
Thanks!
On iOS , app is more separated from each other. The only way to pass data from one app to other is using the URL mechanism. As one example, an app register url scheme "open-me://",you invoked openURL with "open-me://my-link" then that app will launched. That app will define the detail of the URL so it could understand the content.Continue with the example we are using, the text you passed could be either "open-me://A?data=my-link" or "open-me://A?message=my-link". So there are no general solution for all apps.Typically third party app will provide a SDK to make these things easy.
If you don't mind using a kind of large third party library, ShareKit is a good choice. It supports quite some apps.
If you want to know more about this topic,for example sharing files between app. You could start from reading the class reference of UIDocumentInteractionController.This UI component will show a list of app installed on your device which support the URL scheme.