Hi Ben, Thanks for the reply. I do not want to open the app in a new browser tab, What about the apps associated with the Home Screen app. Would it be possible to use a similar mechanism to do that ? If yes, what section of the Home Screen app should I refer to.
Secondly, the master branch fails to open a new app from the Home Screen app in 2.0. So, is it a known issue? Or is supposed to work that way in Simulator. I do see the binding on the html of those icons. I click on them, the css class for opacity get added to the icons, but the app associated with that does not open. I am not sure if those two are related. Sorry for the trouble. Thanks *Prateek Jadhwani* www.prateekjadhwani.com On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Ben Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Prateek, > > It does sound like you're describing a hyperlink! > > If the app you're linking to is a hosted web app with a URL which can be > loaded in a browser tab then simply creating a hyperlink with <a href=" > http://app.com"; target="_blank"> or calling window.open('http://app.com, > '_blank') in JavaScript will open it (in a new tab in the browser app in > 2.0 and in a new browser window in the window manager in 2.1). > > However, if you want to deep link into an installed app then I'm afraid > that isn't currently possible. This requires the concept of "app scope" so > that it's possible to hyperlink between apps. The specific feature you're > looking for is covered by bug 996039 [1] which unfortunately doesn't seem > like it will make it into 2.1. > > If you control both apps you may be able to work around the issue with Web > Activities [2], but that is a bit of a hack. You could also embed the > second app inside the first app inside an iframe or pop it up as a popup > window by calling window.open() without '_blank' as an argument, but it > won't behave like a separate app. > > 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=996039 > 2. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Activities > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Prateek Jadhwani < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I have this app, which needs to open another app, and minimize the >> current app. Its like you have a link to the app and when you click on it, >> it opens it. How to do that in FF OS app? Would creating a href link a good >> idea? If not, then what is the correct way to do it? >> >> Thanks >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-b2g mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g >> > >
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