I'm doing a Twitter Mac OS X app and need to use OAuth1.0. When requesting oauth/access_token interface, is it possible to use the oauth_callback parameter for this purpose?
In other words how to open application from browser on the Max OS X?
The answer is obvious: register the custom URL scheme
http://techblog.amphora-research.com/2010/03/registering-url-handlers-in-macos-x-cocoa-apps/
What I mean:
1. Register the "twittercallbackformyapp://"
scheme using the link above
2. Set this callback in the 'access_token'
HTTP request (oauth_callback parameter)
3. Write the routine (handleOpenURL) to handle
the 'twittercallbackformyapp://oauth_access_token=...&oauth_token_secret=...'
which will be called after you register the handler
Many questions regarding oauth are solved here: http://code.google.com/p/twitcurl/
The lib above uses curl. You can use the Cocoa native networking APIs.
P.S.
Here's another description on how to register the URL handler:
http://mobiledevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-application-via-a-custom-url-scheme.html
It is for iPhone, but for Mac the pattern is the same: add the URL to your app's .plist file.
Related
How can I add deeplink (url like https://www.example.com) in iOS using swift.
The scheme in plist is not working if I enter url in it.
You can check the screenshot of plist attached.
You are attempting to register your app for the URI scheme https which Apple has already reserved for Safari, therefore you will not be able to use it.
Option 1: Custom URI Scheme
You must come up with a custom URI scheme like customURI://www.domain.com
Downside: If a user clicks on this link without the app installed. iOS will show that user and error.
Option 2:Universal Links
Apple launched Universal Links in iOS 9 to enable developers to associate their http link with their app. This requires you to host your own AASA file on your domain so that your domain becomes associated with your app ID.
Option 3: Branch.io
Branch will actually bundle up Universal Links and URI schemes and use them appropriately when necessary. They also perform deferred deep linking. They'll host your AASA file for you, but your app domain will have to be either https://*.app.link or some dedicated subdomain of a domain that you own.
only to be precise:
If you need more docs about in Apple docs, use the CORRECT name for the technology.
If You use url starting with a schema different from http (for example fb:// for FB) is not a LINK, is a "custom" url.
Anyway use: custom url and see at:
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneOSProgrammingGuide/Inter-AppCommunication/Inter-AppCommunication.html
I have 2 iOS applications, using URL Scheme I am able to open app B through A like I have created URL Scheme in B and using OpenURL calling it from application B. Also, I am able to pass the data.
But what I am looking for, is there a way to move back to application A on some specific event.
In B I am getting all details about A in sourceApplication but how to move back?
Do we need to create URL Scheme for both of the apps for communicating with each other? or is there any way to invoke sourceApplication and move back?
Issue 1
in case of Facebook SDK, I create URL Scheme for my app because once authentication is done I want Facebook SDK to call my app that right but I didn't register my app scheme in Facebook SDK info.plist. how does it work?
Issue 2
I have tried on Simulator and device both. if I call canOpenURL it gives me an error
-canOpenURL: failed for URL: "openb://" - error: "This app is not allowed to query for scheme openb"
But If I directly call UIApplication.shared.open it launches the application successfully.
Any leads here?
If you want to invoke iOS application from another iOS app URL Scheme is the way. A URL scheme lets you communicate with other apps through a protocol that you define. To communicate with an app that implements such a scheme, you must create an appropriately formatted URL and ask the system to open it. To implement support for a custom scheme, you must declare support for the scheme and handle incoming URLs that use the scheme.
How to move back or open sourceApplication?
To achieve this you have to create URL Scheme for both of the application.
Issue 1 and 2
Before iOS 8, everyone was using canOpenURL for checking whether this URL is exist for not and if yes openURL for invoking the application. But concern came when few developers/apps started using it to track the user iPhone (what all application is installed) for advertising purposes etc. That's why Apple came up with the solution called URL Scheme Whitelist.
So according to that, if you want to use canOpenURL you have to whitelist the URL Scheme otherwise it will through an error like error: This app is not allowed to query for scheme and if you want to open the application use openURL directly.
Yes it broke lots of SDKs login flow but it makes sense.
For more information, canOpenURL(_:)
I successfully have a message url from the gmail api:
https://mail.google.com/mail/?authuser=roy#companyemail.co#all/155134b5e66a9b06
However, when i call the [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url] method, the web client gets opened up instead of the native iOS application (and just shows the inbox, not the specific message). Not sure if it has to do with the LSApplicationQueriesSchemes or not, but regardless - couldn't find any documentation on this in the Gmail iOS documentation, so if anyone has any ideas!
Thanks
Through the links the Brett posted, this deep link url allowed me to open gmail:
googlegmail://
Still searching for instructions on deep linking to a specific email though
It seems that the openURL method is designed to do what you want to do. But any URL which starts with http: or https: is going to open in Safari. Here is a quote from the doco.
A URL (Universal Resource Locator). UIKit supports many common
schemes, including the http, https, tel, facetime, and mailto schemes.
You can also employ custom URL schemes associated with apps installed
on the device.
I presume that if you wanted to compose a message in the built-in Mail app, you would use a mailto: URL. Not sure about opening an existing message. And if you want to open an existing message in another app, then that app would need to define a custom URL scheme, and you'd need to use that.
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://