Comments on: Launching Other Apps within an iPhone Application

By: Sahiti

Sahiti — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:13:06 +0000

If I open Email app using URL scheme, how can I return to my app after sending an email through Email app?

By: henry

henry — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:31:55 +0000

Can I use my code to ask the system to open a file, thus launching another app to handle the file open?
So I could open a PDF from my App and what ever PDF viewer is installed on the iphone/IPAD would load opening it.

Thanks…

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:07:23 +0000

Ashok, the only way I know of to return to your app would be if your app has a URL scheme that can be called from the other app.

By: ashok

ashok — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:00:24 +0000

How can i return to my original app? I don’t know. help me.
URL Scheme works fine but how can i return to my main app?
help me

By: Paul Gross

Paul Gross — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:37:36 +0000

I actually hvae the opposite question for google maps. Is there anyway to force google maps to stay in a browser on an ipad. I have ios5 and want links in my website to stay in the safari browser and not open the ipad app. This worked fine on ios4 but on ios5 everything goes to the app. Any thoughts?

By: John

John — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:18:43 +0000

Thanks for the great code and discussion

By: Tannyz

Tannyz — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:41:42 +0000

Read that “One advantage this has over other URLs that launch applications, is that the dialer will return control back to the application when the user hits the “End Call” button.”

IS this true ? I am not able to achieve this :(

By: John

John — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:24:34 +0000

Hi there, will this work to launch an app using a “Web Clip” on the Home Page of an iPad?

What I want to do is put an app icon on my users’ iPad that launches a PDF file that is located at a certain spot in a WebDAV folder (no authentication required) on the internet directly in an App that has a custom URL scheme defined…

In Safari you can “Add To Home Page” and add a link onto the Home Page, so the idea would be to have an ibooks:// link rather than an http:// and it would open the pdf being linked to there within iBooks

By: R.MO

R.MO — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:42:20 +0000

Were you able to open the “Apple Store” app? Also, do you know how to go to a particular product?

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:23:00 +0000

Ok, Thanks, Im Using GameSalad, Now I cant create the Custom URL :(

You know if there is a way to Use Open Url to send some information to my site, without leaving the App?
Thanks!