Hi I'm developing a iOS app that needs the ability to add shortcuts to the home screen.
I've searched around abit but all the answers seem to be out of date, how would I go about this as I know it's possible because you can do it in Safari and the Shortcuts app?
I have developed the custom keyboard in the iOS with the help of Keyboard extension provided by the Xcode. This keyboard installed on the iPhone with containing sample app and it's get added as iOS level. This keyboard is available to use across all the application in the iPhone.
Can i restrict the use of custom keyboard to my application only? I don't want keyboard to be expose to other applications in iPhone.
I have developed an application in ionic/angular and it works fine in both devices but when I export as PWA app in ios/safari if user do not use ios default keyboard, he/she cant type and fill input fields and cant have interaction with the keyboard to change it.
Is there any way of testing Apple Smart App Banners in a desktop browser by doing something along the line of spoofing the user agent, or is this functionality so specific to Mobile Safari that I can only test it on an iDevice?
I know that merely spoofing the user agent in a desktop browser doesn't do anything in regards to showing the Smart App Banner, but maybe I can do something else in my desktop Safari browser to test the banner?
I am not an iOS developer but I have access to the iOS emulator on my colleague's Mac if that helps.
Unfortunately, the Smart App Banner is only displayed on iOS Safari on a real device. The iOS Simulator and desktop Safari cannot display smart app banners.
This is a bummer, especially because resetting smart app banners after they have been dismissed is a huge pain.
In chrome dev tools, click the sprocket that lead you to the more advnaced settings, there check the 'override' check-box, and select a mobile user agent(IOS, Android).
Keep in mind that the screen sizes that chrome provide are not always accurate and might need some adjustment.
For more accurate screen sizes you might want to use Mozilla & Firebug(basically has the same functionality)
You can just tap the toggle device toolbar inside chrome inspector and the smart app banners are recognized since this toggle changes to a mobile user agent.
See sample result :
I noticed the Home Full Screen Apps behaves worser than Mobile Safari. I'm wondering also if there are any differences in UIWebView from Mobile Safari also. I'm currently testing on iOS6. If anyone has anything else they want to mention about the pros and cons of each I would appreciate it.