Url Schemes

KidCudi10 · 08-09-2010, 04:33 AM

I've looked everywhere and have not been able to find a easy to follow tutorial on how to pass information to my app.

For example, if you type

Code:

twitter://

then the twitter app launches (if found). And if you type

Code:

twitter://post

then the twitter app launches with the compose screen.

I've managed to launch my app with

Code:

myapp://

but how do I know if the user types in

Code:

myapp://post

so that I know to bring up the compose screen in mine?

Thanks!

KidCudi10 · 08-09-2010, 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KidCudi10

I've looked everywhere and have not been able to find a easy to follow tutorial on how to pass information to my app.

For example, if you type

Code:

twitter://

then the twitter app launches (if found). And if you type

Code:

twitter://post

then the twitter app launches with the compose screen.

I've managed to launch my app with

Code:

myapp://

but how do I know if the user types in

Code:

myapp://post

so that I know to bring up the compose screen in mine?

Thanks!

... anyone?

Duncan C · 08-09-2010, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KidCudi10

... anyone?

You want to add an entry to your app's plist of type CFBundleURLTypes, with a CFBundleURLName and a CFBundleURLSchemes record. You should be able to search for "CFBundleURLTypes" in the XCode docs for iOS.

Next you want to add an application:handleOpenURL: method to your app delegate. That will pass you an NSURL object containing the URL that launched your app. THEN you call [url absoluteString] to get a string version of the URL, and write string parsing code to separate out the different parts of the URL.