Pass data between two Apps by url scheme in swift?

Question

There are two test Apps called Sender & Receiver

They communicate with each other by Url Scheme. I would like to send a String from Sender to Receiver, is that possi

Answer 1

Of course you can. You just compose your app launch URL and pass the parameters like this

iOSTest://?param1=Value1&param2=Valuew

and then parse it in UIApplicationDelegate

Answer 2

Yes, you can use query string.

url.query contains the query string. For example, in the URL iOSTest://www.example.com/screen1?textSent="Hello World", the query string is textSent="Hello World".

Normally we use URLSchemes for deeplinking too, therefore the URLScheme specifies which app to open and the path in the url specifies which screen to open and query string has additional parameters which we want to send to the app.

url.query is a string, therefore you will have to parse it to get the value you need: For example, in the URL iOSTest://www.example.com/screen1?key1=value1&key2=value2, the query string is key1=value1&key2=value2. I'm writing code to parse it but make sure you test it for your case:

    let params = NSMutableDictionary()
    let kvPairs : [String] = (url.query?.componentsSeparatedByString("&"))!
    for param in  kvPairs{
        let keyValuePair : Array = param.componentsSeparatedByString("=")
        if keyValuePair.count == 2{
            params.setObject(keyValuePair.last!, forKey: keyValuePair.first!)
        }
    }

params will contain all key value pairs in query string. Hope it helps :]

In case you don't want to do deep-linking, you can directly append the queryString to scheme. eg: iOSTest://?textSent="Hello World"