Comments on: Launching Other Apps within an iPhone Application

By: Lars Persson

Lars Persson — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:34:49 +0000

Is there a way to send a predefined message instantly to another phone?

Maybe send a predifined sms or something simular?

By: Jack Hodges

Jack Hodges — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:22:17 +0000

I have the two applications (MyApp1 that will launch MyApp2), and MyApp2, both installed and running on the device using ADHOC profiles. The code event cycle is working, because if I change from @”myapp2://” to @”http://foo” (in MyApp1) and select the item while running a Safari web page to foo is launched. But returning to @”myapp2://” does nothing. I wish that I could trace the behavior and find out what is going on. It seems clear that there is no knowledge of the url scheme for myapp2 available to MyApp1. In fact, I am not sure how MyApp1 would know about any url schemes. It seems like they have to be registered outside of the device to work and that is why I asked about the ADDHOC vs. APP STORE installation.

Jack

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:19:38 +0000

It sounds like you may be trying this on the simulator?? If so, try the application on a device and see if you have the same problem.

By: monika

monika — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:58:36 +0000

Hi,
I am trying to open another application present on appstore from my iphone application,by using ur above given code but safari showing an alert “LOTS OF REDIRECTION,NOT ABLE TO OPEN”

Tell me onething is it possible that from our application we are able to delete or uninstall other application present in our iphone.

By: Jack Hodges

Jack Hodges — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:21:20 +0000

Will this approach work with ADHOC distributions or only distributions through the app store?

Jack

By: Steve Raschke

Steve Raschke — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:19:04 +0000

Seen a few related / unanswered queries above… Does anyone know if there is a URL Scheme Reference for the iPhone iPod app? We’d like our site to redirect content to a (pref Apple) media app that handles M3U and PLS files from HTML anchor tag. Several blogs say M3U is supported on iPhone v3.x but I’m not seeing how that happens.

By: John Muchow

John Muchow — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:01:46 +0000

roei: the simulator will not open URL’s to the iTunes store, however the code will work on device.

By: roei

roei — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:35:56 +0000

I tried to open the app store like you suggested:

NSURL *appStoreUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=291586600&mt=8"];

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:appStoreUrl];

But I get an error from Safari saying “Safari can’t open page because too many redirects occurred”.
Any idea why?

By: kanyal

kanyal — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:31:45 +0000

Hi Gurus
i am working on iphone live tv app. i have a streaming link that will stream video and audio. but i don’t know how to launch video player in iPhone native app. any body have some idea or any help, how i can that. thanks in advance

By: Subha

Subha — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:04:55 +0000

Hi guys,

I want to know whether it is possible to launch the SMS application via OpenUrl Scheme with the preloaded message in 3.1.