I don’t know Dan as its been a while since I looked into this - but it sounds like a typical security thing Apple insists on for the AppStore? They tend (when compared to Android), to lock that sort of thing down save for a few standard (internet) url schema.
📆 Schedule a call with me On 1 Sep 2021, 18:05 +0100, Dan Friedman via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>, wrote: > I need a little help here... > > I am creating a mobile app for a client that wants to simply launch another > app. To do this, I am trying to use a custom url to launch an external app. > For example: > > launch url "fb:" > > This works fine on Android, but on iOS, I get "no association" (yes, Facebook > is installed). Then I read that you have to enter the Custom URLs you want to > use in the "App URL Query Whitelist" area in the Application Builder. Is this > true? Why does the app have to know at compile time what URLs are going to be > opened? In my app's case, client can change and edit the list on a server, so > the list of apps to launch are received by the our app at launch. > > "mailto:";, "http:", "music:" and "tel:" all work just fine on iOS without > being included in the App URL Query Whitelist. > > Anyone have any insight to this process? > > Thanks in advance! > -Dan > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
