Comments on: Launching Your Own Application via a Custom URL Scheme

By: CJ

CJ — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:27:24 +0000

Did you ever get an answer for this? I have the same question.

By: intuvio.com

intuvio.com — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:41:54 +0000

Thanks Rodney – appreciate the content as well as the good discussion in comments.

By: Maarten

Maarten — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:51:55 +0000

You mean when someone taps the spot where your app should be installed?

No, there’s no default technique for that. Search this thread to find more than 1 solution for what you ask.

By: Maarten

Maarten — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:51:29 +0000

Hi Massimo,

The Apple Telephone app will be called. Your app will never receive a message.
There is nothing similar in iOS. Same goes for “mailto”, “http” and other ‘standard’ URL schemes.

By: Massimo

Massimo — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:18:22 +0000

Q. What if I register an URL scheme like “tel://” in a VoIP application? My goal is to prompt to the user a selection between the native dialer (standard call) and my VoIP application (voip call) when selecting a contact’s number from the native address book or the native recent calls apps. In Android this is quite straightforward, is there anything similar for iPhone? Thanks.

By: Cris

Cris — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:10:17 +0000

What happens if your App is not installed? Is there a technique that can be used to go to the AppStore to install your App?

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:59:18 +0000

Here is a list of published URL schemes, however, I don’t see one listed for GOOD. You could inquire if there is a custom URL defined.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 19:53:02 +0000

We’ve got a demo version of our site available to our sales team and we’d like our sales team to be able to send out an email to the person they’re doing the demo for at the end of the demo using a mail program that’s not the default mailer.

How would I go about launching GOOD (the mail program) instead of launching the default mailer. I don’t want our sales team to have to change the settings on their iPad to automatically open GOOD.

Thanks!

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:21:32 +0000

In the application, you can parse the incoming URL and based on the page (page1 or page2), you could show the relevant view controller.

By: Mattias

Mattias — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:42:42 +0000

Great tutorial, but is it possible for you to tell me how I can send the user to different viewControllers?

if url = myapp://page1 send user to viewController1

if url = myapp://page2 send user to viewController 2

Is it possible?