Hello I have a custom URL to open an app with a link. It works in the browser. But I want to send an email that another user can click the link in the email and the app will be started. Does anybody know a solution?
It is not possible to send an email with the link (myApp://). It always shows the the link as blank text.
Or does anyone know another solution to transfer data between an app to a other users app?
I think you need to write the link in href html tag
i.e. open my app
another solution is to try to add any text after the double slash i.e. myApp://open
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What I am trying to do is, Send user a link in email, and then when user taps on the link. My iOS app should open.
I am giving:
<a href = "myappNAME://profile">
The issue I have been facing that the email link is not even clickable.
I also completed the ios side as well. followed this link
http://skookum.com/blog/open-an-ios-app-from-an-email
Here is how you can do it open your project plist and add a url type(See screenshot).Fill in the required information identifier should be your bundle identifier and for url scheme just put a string say "hello".Build the app,than go to safari and type hello:// this should open the App.And for the link in email should have this scheme and it will open the App.
The reason was email filters, they disable the links like "myapp://" .
So what I have to do is, add a link to another page and from their I added a redirect, and then It worked.
I'm trying to write an iOS Objective-C app to login to an old website. Note I don't have control of the website so I have no way of changing the login.
The procedure is:
Open browser at specific URL.
User enters their username and password.
Website returns a file called something like bad_link.smith.
App reads file to get key to use for API.
Is it possible to do this in iOS - open a URL from an app and have the file returned?
You could use UIWebView Delegates for this
Implement this https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIWebViewDelegate_Protocol/index.html#//apple_ref/occ/intfm/UIWebViewDelegate/webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:navigationType: delegate method and get the URL the user is going to and if the URL matches the URL you want to download then you can get the URL by the NSURLRequest and download it seperately. :) Hope I helped you.
What other thing you could do is make the code native and without the browser and simulating as a browser in the code. Can be used if no CAPTCHA is there. Do tell if you need more info on this.
My app uses a custom URL scheme so i send a link to my users in an email which when clicked, launches my app installed on their devices. This was working seamlessly till iOS 6 came into picture.
Now when the users click on the link or even type the address manually in the safari they get an error saying "Safari cannot open the page because it is a local file."
Wondering if anyone else encountered the same or if someone has any pointers in this regard !!
Any help much appreciated...
Update: it works if I only give my app's custom url without any parameters.. e.g. if I do "reader-app://" it launches my app but if i do "reader-app://doc=xyz" it doesn't !
try: reader-app://?doc=xyz (add a question mark after //) this way you'll specify a query string. It works for me, but it presents an alertdialog asking the user if she wants to open the url with my application
Try to remove the - sign from reader-app://.
My URL was not working until I removed underscore sings from URL.
Ex:
my_app:// is not working.
myapp:// is working.
That is just a guess.
The main task I'm trying to achieve is to open my app with a URL.
Adding the custom URL scheme to the appName-Info.plist everything works fine using the corresponding handleOpenUrl: etc etc.
My point is that my app has got a webSite as well. So what I'm trying to do is, given an url to my users (tiny, short url doesn't matter) combine together these 3 different cases:
If the user opens the URL from his iPhone and he's got the app installed: open the iPhone app;
If the user opens the URL from his iPhone and he hasn't got the app installed: open the iTunes store URL of the app;
If the user open the the URL from his phone (android, tablet, etc) , or from the web, show the web page instead.
My problem is that I can achieve all these tasks separately but I cannot combine all together.
Note: tried to add the http://myApp.com to the UrlScheme but of course didn't work coz the http:// is managed by Safari in the iPhone.
Any idea? Help and suggestions would be really appreciated. Tks a lot chaps.
This SO question seems to have the answer you're looking for:
Check if the user-agent is that of an iPhone/iPod Touch
Check for an appInstalled cookie
If the cookie exists and is set to true, set window.location to your-uri:// (or do the redirect server side)
If the cookie doesn't exist, open a "Did you know Your Site Name has an iPhone application?" modal with a "Yep, I've already got it", "Nope, but I'd love to try it", and "Leave me alone" button.
The "Yep" button sets the cookie to true and redirects to your-uri://
The "Nope" button redirects to "http://itunes.com/apps/yourappname" which will open the App Store on the device
The "Leave me alone" button sets the cookie to false and closes the modal
The other option I've played with but found a little clunky was to do the following in Javascript:
This would solve one of your problems, it will link the user to the app page:
itms-apps://itunes.com/apps/APPNAME
The requirement is open the Mail app, just like custom url scheme open the app but do nothing else.
Use #"mailto://" url will open the Mail app with a new email in edting, that's not what I want.
any ideas?
sorry about my poor English.