I'm developing two versions of app(android, and ios)
In android when i open url from email the system gives me several options of opening it: browser, my app.
I can open the url(http://www.someurl/path?param1=2¶m2=1) with my application and get the params. Is there a way to do it in ios? thanks in advance
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I was developing an iOS application which need to work with a website. I'm not the owner of website so I cant use the universal link. I tried to open the website url https://example.com/xxx/xxx directly when I set the https://example.com/xxx/xxx as URL Scheme , however it will only display the website but won't asked for open the apps. What is the problem and can I do to achieve the expectation below?
Expectation:
When the user open the website
Phone w/ app - open the website and ask for open the app
Phone w/o app - open the website
I have similar problem with this question.
iOS URL scheme or not existing Universal Link
If you don't own the website you want to deep link to, you can't dictate the behavior once the user lands on that destination in their browser – that would need to be handled by that website.
I want to open an url from my application. Before opening it in browser , i need to show the list of browsers available and let the user select the browser. Is it possible on a non jailbroken device?
Thanks.
No, its not possible in current sdk
But you can try this way
It does not handle list of used URL schemes
However, one can catch only these web browsers installed
http://wiki.akosma.com/IPhone_URL_Schemes#Google_Chrome
I want to open sayduck application from my iOS application. I know I need to use URL Scheme register by this application. My problem is that I cant fint this URL. Do you know how I can check if this URL is definded?
There is a URL scheme - but unless you're sure the user has the Sayduck application installed the best approach is to go via safari. openURL:
http://in.sayduck.com/
This will either launch the app, go to the appropriate app store download page for the device or show a web page depending on the device type (desktop/ios/android etc.)
Disclosure: I work for sayduck
This is my first time create an ios application that required deep linking. I need to create a web service for my custom url scheme for ios in order to publish it online. Please give some pointer on regarding which web service i should use or is there an alternative way to create a deep linking for custom url scheme for iOS. Thanks.
You can do it yourself with any server platform - Rails, PHP, Dot.Net, etc.
Here is a very simple PHP snippet. Replace "myappname" with your app's URL scheme. The param/value query is optional - you can use any other text and parse it in your App Delegate's openUrl method.
if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'iPhone OS') !== FALSE) {
// redirect
header("location: myappname://?key=value");
exit();
}
Client use-cases:
iOS Safari, your app installed - will open your app.
iOS Safari, your app not installed - Safari will complain that it cannot open the link.
Another iOS app, your app installed - will switch to your app.
Another iOS app, your app not installed - same as Safari. However, if the other app is implementing UIApplication's canOpenURL: - it may gracefully take the user to the App Store, but it's up to the other app developer.
Any other device or browser - will continue to render the page, where you can add your html including AppStore links.
If you don't want to create the server code, you can use a tool I created for this purpose. You have it here:
http://www.uppurl.com/
It's mainly a short link tool that checks for user device and give him the right url based on his devices. With this tool you don't need to write any server code and it also takes care of different devices, operating systems and browsers.
Take care of Tal answer as latest versions of Chrome has changed the way to open app and now you need to provide a link in different format, they use something like "intent://..."
Is it possible for a web app to make use of the box:// url-scheme with parameters to open a specific file in the Box iOS app?
The Android Box app has a similar function with its intent links.
And if it is possible, what would these parameters be? (already using Oauth2 API to list files with shared links).
boxopendirect://file?id=<fileid> to redirect to a file.
boxopendirect://folder?id=<folderid> to redirect to a folder
It certainly is possible to open other apps from inside a webapp using a proprietary scheme identifier. Unfortunately, you will need to know the exact scheme syntax in advance. There's a good list of them available here:
http://wiki.akosma.com/IPhone_URL_Schemes
For example, to open the youtube app directly, you can use:
youtube://