url-scheme

I am trying to write an app that does a person search of my company. When it returns a result, I want to include a feature to add the person to the Contacts app with the push of a button. The problem is, I can't find a way to launch the Contacts app through a custom URL scheme with the new person info as parameters. Does anyone have any idea if this is possible and if so, how to go about that? Ole Begemann If there were a public URL scheme, Apple would have documented it in the URL Scheme Reference . Your options are: ABNewPersonViewController or ABUnknownPersonViewController Direct

I would like to be able to launch the DropBox app within my app. Therefore I would like to know if the DropBox app has a URL scheme that I can use to call openURL, something like this, except I don't know what this string should be. NSURL *myURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"dropbox://"]; [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:myURL]; The only thing you can do with the Dropbox url-scheme is connect your Dropbox App to it. Like this: var key = "[YOUR API KEY]"; var secret = "[YOUR API SECRET]"; var apiversion = "1"; window.open("dbapi-1://"+apiversion+"/connect?k="+key+"&s="+secret); Normally

Some dev blogs have published information about the "fb://" url scheme for opening various views in the Facebook iPhone App. No matter how much I've searched, I haven't found one word from any official Facebook source about this. Since the information is public anyways, I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd like to know, whether using this url scheme is officially approved, am I allowed to use it, does it work correctly, and if it's not approved, will it be and what's the approximate schedule for that? Thanks in advance for any info on this subject! It's there to support the iOS push

Before IOS 6, I was using this URL scheme to open the native maps app and find directions from the users current location to an address that I created. http://maps.google.com/maps?daddr= " + address + "&saddr=Current+Location This was working great, but now that they got rid google maps with IOS 6, we had to check which IOS version they were on and then refer them to the new apple maps url scheme if they were using IOS 6.0 or greater. The new url scheme we are using is this.... http://maps.apple.com/maps?daddr= " + address + "&saddr=Current+Location This is based on the new documentation for

I'm wanting to open up another application on my ipad via a button press in Unity. I know normally I would use Application.OpenURL() on my button press, but I'm unsure as to what to put in the brackets. This is an application already on the iPad and isn't one I've created. Has anyone ever done this before? Could you possibly point me in the right direction so I can get this to work? Is it even possible? JeanLuc The other application needs to support that behaviour, by defining a custom url scheme . The developer needs add an URL Type i.e. "awesomeapp" in Xcode under Targets > Info > URL Types,

Possible Duplicate: Is it possible to register a http+domain-based URL Scheme for iPhone apps, like YouTube and Maps? I have a custom URL scheme for my iOS app, and I want to be able to email a link to someone that will either launch the app if it's on the device, or take them to the app store if they don't have it. I'd like to be able to send myapp://someurl and have that either launch or go to myapp on the appstore, but I don't think this will work out of the box. Instead, I'm thinking of creating a link that loads some javascript which will try myapp://someurl, and if that fails will

I was thinking about Registering an Application to a URL Protocol and I'd like to know, what characters are allowed in a scheme? Some examples: h323 (has numbers) h323:[<user>@]<host>[:<port>][;<parameters>] z39.50r (has a . as well) z39.50r://<host>[:<port>]/<database>?<docid>[;esn=<elementset>][;rs=<recordsyntax>] paparazzi:http (has a : ) paparazzi:http:[//<host>[:[<port>][<transport>]]/ So, what characters can I fancy using? Can we have... @:TwitterUser #:HashTag $:CapitalStock ?:ID-10T ...etc., as desired, or characters in the scheme are restricted by standard? According to RFC 2396 ,