I have an webpage with some forms opened in Safari browser. Some customers will type in some data and send forms.
I need block home button (and others buttons too) that customer will not able switch to another app and this app will be always front of the screen.
Exist for this some app or something similar?
I'm also interested in case that i have my own app with same forms.
Many thanks for any advice.
You can use Guided Access on the iPad to keep it locked to that one application, that's in Settings > General > Accessibility > Guided Access Look at this for more details http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5509?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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I have designed an app where the app needs to enable the GPS. There is a page for the user which ask use GPS? To this answer there are 2 options YES and NO. Now my concern is when user clicks on YES he should be directed to settings page and that part is done but now after enabling the GPS from this page the user should redirect to the app again but unfortunately there is no way as there is no back button in the setting page.. Please suggest what I can do in this regards?
As far as I know, the only way to open your app (aside from user tap your app or a related notification) is to do some custom url handling. but unfortunately you can't do such a thing. The other thing you can try is to:
Setup a background thread when your app goes to background
check for location service availability
if it changed to your desired value, open a custom url which in turn will open your app (you should register for hat particular url in your info.plist and such)
but There are some things to keep in mind:
Such Behavior will almost surely get your app rejected by Apple.
in iOS 9+ Apple added a new feature that will help you in this particular problem. when an app gets opened from another app (settings.app for you here) it will add a Back to xxxx in place for network indicator to help user get back were he was.
So, IMHO leave the user experience be as it is for all other applications and don't worry about how he would get back to your app.
In IOS, it is possible to launch another app from your app using a URL scheme.
But is it possible to have it then return to the calling app if the home button is then pressed?
What if Guided Access is enabled?
No sorry, The Home button will always lead to the users home, there is no way for developers to override that.
You can however have a button in the "called" app that will take the user back to the app that opened it. Facebook does this when going back and forth between their main app and their messages app.
edit Good answer from #shim about guided access in the comments. Basically if its on, you won't be able to leave the app so it doesn't do any good with this problem. /edit
Is is possible to dynamically figure out the position of an app's icon on the home screen of an iphone/ipad?
Sorry I don't have enough credit to comment yet so I'm posting here.
To my knowledge no you cannot natively or easily do this. I know of no open source or other libraries. The reason being that your app exists in its own world, it is not in touch per say with the rest of the device. It can get permissions to read and write data but it doesn't know of itself.
Does that make sense?
When you open a website it cannot know which tab it is in the browser. Instead it knows how it was accessed and what device (physically) is using it. It knows the user-agent, the time, the browser, etc because that is information sent to it in the request. In turn the phone on launch gives data to the app in how to handle it but not for example how many other apps are running, or where it is on the screen. It's not normally considered relevant to run time. In addition it's a security feature in preventing an app from deleting or altering other apps, as well as itself. If you have an iPhone you will notice that SIRI cannot turn off google maps navigation or any other non-apple specific app. Only apps natively comparable and private party ones (ex apples) are accessible because Apple did that intentionally. They all know of their own existence and each others. However non-native in the sense of apps that do not come preinstalled and manufactured by the company creating the device are less trustworthy, in addition there are no guarantees about how they will be run by the device, where they will be, or what other apps will be there.
It is true that an app can request for another app it may be comparable with but it is up the user to handle that information.
May I ask for curiosities sake why you are trying to do this? Are there any other workarounds?
However in terms of it being physically possible, yes. I doubt that apple allows independent developers to do this however. But an example of this occurring may be gridlock where a user can move their apps around differently on the screen. The app in this case has the ability to access app position. But I believe in this case app position is about the UI and not about nested files. apps cannot to my knowledge modify information outside of their own file. Imagine if you had an app that could edit other games scores.
It is not possible to dynamically find out the position of an app's icon on the Home Screen (even for jailbreak apps). Apple wants you to respect the user's privacy settings.
Extra Info - There is popular JavaScript library that adds a promo bubble to the bottom of your mobile web application, inviting users to bookmark the app to their device's home screen.
I have a mobile web app designed as a single place for employees of our company to help them locate various online resources. The app has a lot of in-app content, but also provides links to external partner websites. My issue is a common one with a bit of a twist. I like the way the app looks in standalone mode on an iphone, but am struggling to figure out a solution for keeping the app in stand-alone mode, while also providing the ability to open external links in safari. I know how to keep the app in standalone mode when links are clicked, but when an external link is clicked, one of two problems occurs:
1) If I code the external link to keep it in standalone mode, there is no way to navigate back to my app from the external site as the back button is obviously no longer available.
2) If I code the external link to open in safari, when the user is done with the external link, the session for my app is closed and the user has to go back to their homescreen and re-open it again. (I know I can code it so that they will return to where they were in the session, but this is not the solution I want).
My question is this, is there a way to open external links ON TOP OF a standalone web app session? So that when the external link is closed, the standalone web app session appears?
I've read that I can use AJAX to open external links within the active session, but I don't know how to do this and can't find anything online that explains it well. Any help would be MUCH appreciated.
My app functions fine in safari, but looks SO much better in standalone mode; I would be SO appreciative if anyone can provide a solution. I am also willing to discuss paying someone to help with this as well.
Cheers,
SC
Turn your app into an actual app, not just a web site. You should implement your own web browser in your app using UIWebView. It's very simple. You probably only need a back button and a close button, you don't need a full search/address bar, bookmarks, etc. UIWebView and two buttons will do it.
As soon as you switch apps to Safari you will see the behavior you have described - there's no getting around it. Your only choice is not to exit.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UIWebView_Class/Reference/Reference.html
I am testing a website on an Ipad. It seems that if someone clicks on an email link, an email program will open in full screen (taking the user away from the browser). What makes it annoying is, there is no "close or X" button for them to leave the mail program. How do my ipad Visitors go back to the browser?
Is there a way (or a HTML code) where if someone click on an email link on an Ipad, it will open up the email program in a small window without taking the visitors away from the brower?
iOS's UI is based on the concept of full-screen apps. To return to the browser, your user must return to the browser app. This can be done using the button, or (if configured) some multi-touch gestures (I use a 4-finger swipe to the side, but I can't remember what the default is).
You should not be trying to change the user interface of a specific device from your website. You might help a few users who have not yet got used to their iOS interface, but you will confuse and/or annoy all the ones who have.
If I wrote to you and asked for help because everyone else in the whole continent was driving on the wrong side of the road, would you try to fix the entire road system? No! I hope you'd just tell me how (or not) to drive. Same deal with the existing UI on any device — let your user learn to use it properly.