I'm imagining this situation: I have my app opened on my device. I've just created a new element (object) in my app, for example a new Film like this
film = {
title: 'Shark 3',
subtitle: 'the revenge',
date: '12-11-2019',
plot: '...'
};
and I've saved it in my local storage. Now I want to share it on socials (WhatsApp, Facebook...) generating a link to this object. By clicking on this link I want my app (or the app store if it is not installed) to open. In case my app is installed, it should display a page with the film's information.
Is it possible? How to do this in ionic?
The data you want to present is stored within the app and so available on every device your app is installed, I guess? Or is it data loaded from a backend?
What you want to do is called a Deep Link. This means clicking on a links opens your app and redirects the user to a specific page depending on the link.
This is possible with Ionic and the DeepLink native plugin.
But there need to be done other things outside your app to make it work. You need to register and verify your domain with Google and/or Apple.
And be aware testing this is very uncomfortable. It will only work with signed packes. So just running ionic cordova run android won't work, you will have to go the whole way creating a signed package as you need to do when you're going to publish it.
Here is a Blog article describing the functionality.
I recently hit a problem while trying to integrate FaceBook in an iOS app.
Fortunately I found the answer here:
Facebook SDK: app not registered as a URL Scheme
This is where I have a question:
In the post mentioned above the answer gives the following as the second step:
Create a key called FacebookDisplayName with a string value, and add the Display Name you configured in the App Dashboard.
How do I write this Display Name in case it is changing according to the user Language Settings?
I tried ${DisplayName} or ${CFBundleDisplayName} but I have no confidence I am using the right syntax and name.
In the InfoPlist.strings you can add
FacebookDisplayName = "AppName";
for all the languages you have implemented. This way it will be consistent to the facebook configured details regardless of what your app is really called on the device.
I want to integrate the facebook login dialog in my app. For that i have checked the facebook developer page to integrate it.
1 - Downloaded facebook sdk package and installed it
2 - added facebook.framework and FBUserSettingsViewResources.bundle in my app
3 - and use its SessionLoginSample
Its running and user can do login using facebook but its open in safary instead of that i want to open it in dialog box.
Answer in here says that do change in facebook.m file but my project does not have it. for that i have downloaded facebook-ios-sdk project from the GITHub and in that project from src folder i have copied all file in my project. Its non arc so added flag fno-objc-arc.
But facebook.m file does not contain that code which answer suggested to change. And also i have implemented graph GraphApiSample but it display error in FBLoginView.
So plz help on this topic any code or tutorial will be highly appreciable.
If you want to open the login page within your app you have to use the FBGraphAPI .
If you want to force the web dialog, you need to specify the login behavior.
If you look in FBSession, there are many methods to open a Session, many of which will take an FBSessionLoginBehavior parameter. If you pass in FBSessionLoginBehaviorForcingWebView for the login behavior, it will force the web view dialog.
As I submit an application for "read" action on Open Graph I received the following response.
Status: Changes needed
Unfortunately, your article.read built-in submission does not meet the read requirements specified at: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/actions/builtin/#read. You must give users the ability to turn sharing off/on globally as well as remove an article that was shared within the app. In addition, read actions should only be generated when there is a strong indication that the user is actually reading the article. Please note that we cannot accept resubmission as this time due to technical limitations, so you will need to create a new submission. We plan to have this resolved within the next couple of weeks. We suggest making the required changes and checking back. We appreciate your patience. Note: If you are creating an aggregation based on the object, you need to add 6-7 unique sample objects, and then create a corresponding sample action acting on each of these unique objects. (You can not just create 6-7 sample actions pointing to the same sample object). Submission Checklist: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/checklist
Please make changes below and resubmit for review.
Unfortunately, this "guide" is not helping with anything. Firstly, I have no idea where to do this:
You must give users the ability to turn sharing off/on globally as well as remove an article that was shared within the app.
Second of all, I don't even know how to "resubmit"!
Any help would be appreciated.
I was experiencing the same thing. You have to click on the name of your action that you submitted. Once you do that, Facebook provides detailed instructions why they didn't approve the action and what you need to do before you resubmit. Once you review the message, you can make the necessary changes and save the action again. Then you'll have the option to resubmit. In my case Facebook said that I need to provide more detailed instructions what the user needs to do to get an action published. They provided this example: "User must create an account, enable Timeline sharing in the settings, view a product within the app and then click the “want” button underneath the product image to trigger a story". I did that and resubmitted. Hopefully it works this time around. Good luck.
To resubmit, just delete the rejected action and create a new one. You can use the same action name as before. You then go through the submission process again as you did the first time.
Facebook have recently updated their guide to implementing their built-in action types. For the Read action type, see https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/actions/builtin/#read. You will see a sample application that meets the following criteria required for the use of this action type:
Turn sharing on/off globally on each page an article appears.
Remove articles they shared within your app on each page an article appears.
Only generate read actions when you're sure someone is interested in reading the article.
Built-In actions can't be resubmitted. It is a FB Bug:
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/364663400220101?browse=search_4f44876aabaef7501649601
From this answer on FB tools and support I got this:
You can start a new submission at the bottom of the "Items in Review" page:
https://developers.facebook.com/apps/337449599791917/review-status/items-in-review/
That link didn't work for me.. so I just went to the app dashboard and clicked on status and review
clicking on the start a new submission button loaded a dialog that prompted me to select which items to "re-review".. so I only selected the problematic one:
after that it loads a form for you to resubmit, so here you gotta re-upload the iOS simulator build etc..
and that's it!
I read in another post that you can submit the app without the binary but I based on what I have seen this is no longer possible. It seems you cannot submit without the binary and the binary is submitted through the application loader. Is there any other known way to get the itunes/app store link to my app before I submit the binary?
The manual way:
Your should copy your "Apple ID" from iTunes connect and use this link:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/APPNAME/idXXXXXXXXX
Would open the US store ("APPNAME" is that app name and XXXXXXXXX is the "Apple ID". You can use more general method (Recommended):
http://itunes.apple.com/app/idXXXXXXXXX
and replace "XXXXXXXXX" with your "Apple ID" (from iTunes connect - after creating the app there).
Pay attention that those would open safari if you won't preprocess them, You could also use itms:// to open iTunes directly.
The easiest way to do this now is through iTunes Connect. Once you create an app there is a link to 'View in App Store'. Even if you haven't uploaded a binary yet you can click this link to get your App Store link.
The other answers work too but this generates your url for you. This is the URL it creates with my info removed (replace app-name and the numbers after /id with your own):
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/app-name/id12345678?ls=1&mt=8
Once you create application in iTunes for submission under App Information tab click in View on App Store you will get app link.
Option 2: (In new update this is no longer available) you can create as below
https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/your-appname/id123456?mt=8
Note : Just replace app name and numbers after /id with your app-id in above link
Use this url example and just change your Apple ID at the end! Replace only the numbers!
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id111111111
You can find the value of your Appple ID by login into your App Store Connect and navigating to 'My Apps' under the 'App Information' -> 'General Information' -> 'Apple ID'
This url format works always and it is particularly helpful if you need the link before you publish your app
The standard URL is:
http://itunes.com/apps/yourlowercaseappname
As of today and for reference, I would say the best option is #"http://itunes.apple.com/app/%#/id%#?mt=8", inserting:
your application lowercase name,
your application ID.
In fact, this is essentially the link you can get for your application on your app's page in iTunes Connect (iTunes Connect > Manage Your Apps > Your App > View in App Store). Minus some parameters (which seems - between other unidentified things - to link to a precise country).
I thinks it's better than the itms://... one because this one redirects you to the iTunes Store on your device, which is not the App Store. You're then redirected, etc. The http://... link seems to be directly hooked to the App Store app.
I ended up using - itms://itunes.apple.com/app/id?mt=8
This seems to be what I was looking for.
Remember http://itunes.apple.com/app/id[Apple_ID] is gone. It will work for the old links and it should work fine for new ones too maybe, but to be safe use the new https://apps.apple.com/app/id[Apple_ID]
You can get application link before uploading your binary file on iTunes Connect.
You just need to upload your meta data using iTunes Connect. And after submitting these data you will get Apple ID. And by this ID you can get the URL for your application.
e.g. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=appID
where appID="Your application ID when you submit the meta data"
Please check this. It is working here. And If you still have any problem then please let me know. I will help you out to solve the problem.
According to Apple's iTunes Connect documentation the View on App Store link is only available if at least one version of the app has had it's status set to Ready for Sale.
Having said that you can still see what the actual link will be, you just will not be able to load the page.
Best way to get app link is
login to itunes connect
Go to My Apps -> create app record if
you don't have any.
select your app -> go to App Information
section
At bottom of the page check additional information
section, there is a link called "View on App Store". Click on the
link and you will get exact URL for your app.Copy-Paste and Enjoy.
Apple has a documentation for creating easy-to-read app links. If your app name is specified, creating your links with this way is much more clear.
It seems the app id is now the Apple ID in the itunesconnect page. Go to App Information and scroll down until you see Apple ID. That is your app id.
http://itunes.apple.com/app/id[Apple_ID]
Go to https://itunesconnect.apple.com,
if not yet created, create a new App.
Open it and in the first screen (AppStore -> App information -> General) there is a field called "Apple ID" with the id number.
Copy and use it. Is this one.
If AdWords does not allow a link to iTunes, this will solve it...
If you use the link generated at the bottom of iTunesConnect, and you are selling internationally, you will find /us/ or /gb/ or /de/ etc that indicates the language of the relevant store. Adwords will not approve a link with the language indicated.
Why?
Because Adwords does not accept redirects and unmatched URLs. If the link is to the USA store, but the Adword test originates in Germany, then a redirect is detected. Of course, this behavior is correct because no matter what the link says the user will go to her local app store.
Solution: Edit the link from iTunes Connect. Strip out unneeded info. Simply match the display and final URL, disregarding any message about length in the display URL warning text.
URL copied from iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/this-is-my-app-name/id1111111111?ls=1&mt=8
Edited URL suitable for AdWords
DISPLAY URL
itunes.apple.com/app/id111111111
FINAL URL
http://itunes.apple.com/app/id111111111
notes:
- appstore.com is a redirect
- itunes.apple.com by itself is a redirect. Only in full as above does it go directly to your app page.
- When one URL - no matter how valid - redirects, then the result is mismatched URLs.
/gb
1- Go > https://appstoreconnect.apple.com/
2- My Apps > Select Your App
3- App Store > App Information > View On App Store
The best simple link is
http://itunes.apple.com/app/idXXXXXXXXX.
You can get id from your App Information in http://itunesconnect.apple.com.