I am building a group IM app (like GroupMe), and I want to allow users to invite new users to the app by adding them to a group, so when the new user installs and opens the app, they are automatically added to the group.
I have most of this implemented, but I cannot figure out how to pass data to the installation so that I can add the new user to the group.
Is it possible to trigger a custom action upon installation?
Right now I'm texting invite URLs that forward the user to the App Store:
http://appstore.com/appname/appname
If I add parameters to the end of it, how do I retrieve them in the app code?
I have been researching but maybe I'm just looking for the wrong thing. I found "deep linking" frameworks like http://applinks.org/ but this doesn't seem to help with custom invites.
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I have a small app up and running for myself. It's an app homepage with buttons that shoot requests out to our hosted app, which returns modal payloads. It works perfectly for me.
When I began development I had to ask that the app be installed by our admin.
When other users in the same workspace attempt to install it they're greeted with "This is still a work in progress" instead of the app homepage.
I don't wish to distribute the app beyond my current workspace so I don't think I need to implement the o-auth flow. Any hints? I'm sure I'm missing something small.
The issue was that I was using a Home surface. To use app home surface you have to display it for each individual user, not a single time for the app, as I suspected.
When the user clicks on the app home page, it triggers an event that sends a payload to the URL you specify in the app's event subscription settings. You have to respond to slack api's /views.publish endpoint with a payload that defines the home appearance for that particular user. The user id is in the initial request payload.
I'm in the process of updating my iOS app, and one feature that I'd love to add would be the ability to create links (to send via email, or for social media) that would allow users who have downloaded the app to be taken to a certain section of the app, and users who haven't to be taken to the app store page for my app. I also want it to take desktop users to the itunes page for my app.
Now, I've been looking into url schemes as I think this is the way forward, and have managed to create a custom url scheme that will indeed take users to different parts of my app. However, I'm struggling to find a way to check if the app has been installed, and what device the user is on etc.
Would I need to use a server to redirect them to the correct place?
Thanks!
I found out the best way to do it is with universal links, introduced in iOS 9.
https://blog.branch.io/how-to-setup-universal-links-to-deep-link-on-apple-ios-9/
I'm a swift beginner.
I'm trying to create an app that essentially does the following :
Users can sign up and login to the app to receive a new recipe weekly in a pdf (or word doc) format. Once the new recipe of the week is ready to be viewed the users will receive a notification that "recipe of the week is ready for viewing" and they can then login and access the new recipe (as well as recipes from previous weeks).
One admin user will be able to login and upload these pdfs/word doc that contain the recipe and once the upload is complete, the other normal users are notified of this new recipe.
My question :
1) Is it possible to have different users in one app? (ie normal users and admin users). I just want to make the app easy to use for the admin (a friend who is not a tech and who just want to upload recipes) without having to touch the codes or needing me to upload them manually. If its not possible, what could be an alternative way of doing this, so that an ordinary admin user can just upload into the app for other users viewing pleasure?
2) I just thought pdf/word doc might be an easier way for the friend to upload the recipes into app (the recipe might contain pics, tables, graphs etc), if there is a different way of doing this, open to suggestions :) At first I thought maybe putting the recipes on a shared directory and getting Apple's DirectoryMonitor.swift to monitor the directory so that everytime the friend uploads something to the directory, the app will detect this and send notifications to other users....but I thought maybe this isnt the best way to do it, not to mention it might send false notifications (ie when files are removed insteaf of added..)
I do know the basics of Swift, or think I do.So hopefully if you can provide me enough hints (ie framework or SDK or classes to use etc etc) I can use your suggestions to do further research on the subject.
If you need more details or clarifications, please let me know. Thanks!
You must use web services (server) to achieve this stuff.
Design api for login like if admin user login then you return something like this is admin and shows admin screens in your app like upload dishes etc.
If normal user will login then your api (web service) will return you that this is a normal user then show stuff regarding it in your app.
You required web services for uploading and retrieving recipes.
You can easily manage notification if admin upload new recipe to server.
So, it's basically depends on your server and mobile both side of proper management. Your database will take place server side. that's it.
I am new in handling apps that will be connecting with Facebook.
I want to let my user log in my app with Facebook account and be able to send something, for example, a gift to their Facebook friends.
I want to get the user's friends list and which is very easy by using FBFriendPickerViewController. However, I want to have an effect that if their Facebook friend(s) is/are also using my app, the app icon will be shown at the right hand side of the user table cell (Just like some Phone Contact lists will show if the contact has Whatsapp/ Google+)
I have been searching through sites but still find nothing about this.
So my question is, is there any "official" way (using Facebook SDK method) to show the icon?
Or I have been thinking of another approach is that, I first get the friend list and then saved it, with the information that whether the "friend" is using my app or not. Then I create a custom friend picker view and check the condition to enable/disable the visibility of the app icon.
I can get the information by using approached of using GraphAPI fields or using external database, for which are mentioned in this , this and this .....
Anybody help?
Ok I end up with customizing my own table view... : )
I am pretty new with iOS 5 and I am thinking in writing an app.
I would have a list of people inside the app who has it. Then I would invite them to an event.
I don't need any code right now I just wanted to know the concept behind this.
First, how an app can recognise who has my it installed, so it can show a list of people.
Second, after creating an event with a group of people how can I send an invitation to them.
Thanks
From a very general standpoint, what you need is a back-end server to interact with your app and store user/event info. You can either build your own or try to use a service like Parse.