I can create an link to an iBooks document using the "itms-books://book-name" URL scheme, use that link in an html anchor tag accessible via a browser. When I click the link, it launches iBooks and opens the document.
How can I create a similar link to launch the Videos app to play a specific video in my local library? I've seen discussions about getting an asset URL from within another app, but I need something I can access via html in a browser.
There is videos:// which open the Videos Application, but I yet don't know how to use it. If I ever find something, I will let you know.
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I have the opposite problem of iOS open YouTube App with query (url schemes).
Basically I have a URL such as https://youtu.be/A4yitOx14Bg. When the user taps it, or when I open URL, it normally opens up in the YouTube app. The user can usually customize this behavior with a non-obvious gesture. Namely they can tap and hold the link, and then choose to “Open in YouTube” or “Open in Safari”.
Is there some form of the URL that will always force it to open in mobile Safari, and not require user intervention?
I found this site which has a bunch of different formats: https://gist.github.com/rodrigoborgesdeoliveira/987683cfbfcc8d800192da1e73adc486
Pasting it into notes reveals that the only formats that force a page to load into safari are the youtube-nocookie.com urls. This is an official URL from Google, mentioned here.
Thus the same link above can be changed to https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/A4yitOx14Bg and it’ll forcibly load in mobile Safari.
I am facing the following problem:
In a web interface, file downloads are triggered with an anchor tag, like this:
<a href="/bla/blabla" download>..</a>
While Safari browser can handle this request and open a dialogue to handle the file, WKWebView treats this just as an ordinary link and does nothing with it. I want to be able to get the file handler dialogue that is normally there when using Safari.
Right now there are 2 problems and I do not see an opening there yet:
I can not detect a click on the element as it is treated just as a normal link. And I can not rely on the URL parameters to detect if it is a file since that is not constantly true.
Even if the URL is defined as a one leading to a file, I can not pass it to Safari since it does not share session info and cookies with my app's WKWebView.
Therefore, I would like to know if there is any opening in handling files in iOS WKWebView. Thank you.
I have set up Universal links in my iOS app, and it works with full URL like : example.com/path/
Recently, I want short URL like: t.cn/m , which map to example.com/path/ , can be opened in my App directly. So I added appplinks:t.cn at association domain in Capabilities.
But it doesn't work. It can't be opened directly in my App.It's opened with safari and i have to click the "open" button on pull-down-banner in safari to open in my App.
It seems like short URL can't be opened directly in my App, can it?
try applink instead of appplinks
from documentation
My issue is I need to find a way where I can have my action extension run in Safari and open up the website currently being viewed in Safari in my app (my app is a special web browser).
Here's a screenshot:
When the rED extension is clicked, the extension opens up "rED://" which is my custom URL scheme. This launches the app and everything works fine.
However, I want the extension to grab the URL of the webpage being viewed in safari and open that website in my app, so the URL scheme call would look something like "rED://google.com".
What sort of code/methods would I need to implement, and in which .m file would it go in?
Apple provides a method on NSExtensionContext for opening apps via URLs, however that only works for Today extensions (verified by an Apple employee at https://stackoverflow.com/a/24709883/3943258). This technically isn't currently possible.
So I'm trying to figure out how youtube links work on a device. If you were to tap a youtube link in safari/anywhere it would open up the youtube app if it's available or just go to the video in safari. I'm trying to emulate this with my app.
I'm just confuse how to open a app with a valid web url. I understand that I can open a app with a url scheme such youtube:// but that not the same as www.youtube.com
These apps implement what's called URL Schemes.
Here's a pretty good tutorial for setting up your own app with a URL scheme: http://www.idev101.com/code/Objective-C/custom_url_schemes.html