Open a Native AIR app via URL?

Question

I\'d like people to have the ability to launch a Native AIR app via URL. My AIR app would read some parameters on it and open to the correct state.

So the use case w

Answer 1

Register BrowserInvokeEvent on completion, NativeApplication.nativeApplication.addEventListener(BrowserInvokeEvent.BROWSER_INVOKE,onBrowserInvoke);

then define,

protected function onBrowserInvoke(event:BrowserInvokeEvent):void { arguments = event.arguments; }

Answer 2

for iphone you should use an Url-scheme http://iosdevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-application-via-a-custom-url-scheme.html

for android you should edit the AndroidManifest.xml like this

   <activity android:name=".MyUriActivity">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
        <data android:scheme="myapp" android:host="path" />
    </intent-filter>
   </activity>

You can find more answers here How to implement my very own URI scheme on Android

Answer 3

Ok so this is how you do that for desktop applications.

-First of all in the application descriptor file set allowBrowserInvocation to true: true (http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=File_formats_1.html#1043413)

-The application must listen to BrowserInvokeEvent at the start and then you can use the arguments passed to the application like this:

public function onInvokeEvent(invocation:InvokeEvent):void 
{
    arguments = invocation.arguments;
    currentDir = invocation.currentDirectory;
}

-You can launch an AIR APP only from an SWF. A SWF file in the browser can launch an AIR application by calling the launchApplication() method in the air.swf file loaded from http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/browserapi/air.swf Once the air.swf file is loaded, the SWF file can call the air.swf file's launchApplication() method, as in the following code:

var appID:String = "com.example.air.myTestApplication";
var pubID:String = "02D88EEED35F84C264A183921344EEA353A629FD.1";
var arguments:Array = ["launchFromBrowser"]; // Optional
airSWF.launchApplication(appID, pubID, arguments);

For more informations http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=app_launch_1.html#1038008

Hope it helps.