I was viewing my app on a mobile testing site and when I click on the buttons on my app they don't do what they are meant to do which is to navigate a page in the app. This is the code I used for the button:
Thanks
The show method have some parameters to work. These parameters are:
show(motionEase, transitionEffect, transitionEffectType, fade, reset, duration);
Obs: duration parameter is optional.
If you don't know what to put in these parameters, just type SMF.UI.ParameterHere. You can do this with motionEase, transitionEffect and transictionEffectType. Eg:
show(SMF.UI.MotionEase.plain, SMF.UI.TransitionEffect.downToUp, SMF.UI.TransitionEffectType.cover, false, false, 350);
By the way, you can use Smartface's API to search before asking here, you'll have faster results. :)
API: http://docs.smartface.io/
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I have a native iPhone app, which has a UIWebView component to it. I am trying to see if I can replicate the "Add to Home Screen" button that is present in the tab bar options in Safari.
Is this possible inside a UIWebView within a native app?
Thanks!
Brett
[I presume your question is about replicating the action associated with add to home screen, rather than replicating the appearance of the button itself (which being pedantic is what you actually wrote).]
As others have said this isn't possible.
What you could do is programatically launch Safari from within your app and give it the URL of a page to load which is your page.
When your page is loaded it has some sort of animation and shows the user where the add to home screen button is and tell them to press it after clicking a link which is displayed in your web page. When the users click on the link it takes them to whatever page it is that you would like saved to the desktop, and you hope they follow your instructions.
If you register your app to handle a proprietary url scheme the users can get back to your app from within Safari by clicking on a link using your app's url scheme.
The web pages that you seed Safari with must however be remote pages, you cannot give Safari a page in your app's bundle or that your app has downloaded as Safari cannot read pages from your app's sandbox.
The short answer is no, you can't. Apple does not let you.
Here's a similar question which may help you come up with other possibilities:
Javascript for "Add to Home Screen" on iPhone?
If I had to think of a work around off the top of my head, you could create an javascript pop-up which instructs them how to. It could say something like tap this button to go to mobile safari then tap action -> add to home screen.
Execute the Javascript with UIWebView's method:
- (NSString *)stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:(NSString *)script
Hope this helps.
You can use UIActivityViewController with your url as the activity items
NSArray *activityItems = #[title, url];
And then you can exclude the activities that you don't want. I think it´s the only way for now.
our app loads profile pages from our website INSIDE the app. They have been optimized for iPhone css, but they are still an html page. Our mailto link isnt working as expected.
When clicked, nothing happens. However, when clicked and held (tap and hold), the menu slides up with "new message", "create new contact", "copy", etc.
How should this be formatted to get the Mail.app to automatically launch?
<a class="action_bubble" target="_blank" rel="external" href="mailto:bob#bob.com">Send Email</a>
The "call" link works as expected.
<a class="action_bubble" href="tel:1234567890">Call</a>
So, not sure what to do with this...
Here is a project on GitHub that addresses your issue. Basically, when you use a UIWebView controller, you need to decide how to manage the links using the delegate handler for UIWebView. In Interface Builder you can have it automatically recognize phone numbers which is probably why your phone numbers work and it will recognize http links as default behavior. However, mailto and some of the other special href options will need to be handled manually.
make sure "Detection" property is set for your UIWebView like "Phone","Address". you can set it from your IB.
or from code
self.webView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypeAll;
Could it be, that you have just tried within the simulator? The simulator does not have a mail app, so it couldn't be opened. Try on a device. I think your code actually works.
I've just tested on a device: your code works.
A little late to the party but I've found out the following:
iOS has some weird ways to deal with web content
DON'T encapsulate your email address within an A tag, just put it there as plain text
Make sure that in your storyboard (if using one) the webView has the Addresses property checked and you're done ... same goes for phone numbers
Hey, I was wondering how to set the focus to a text box in Mobile Safari.
I've tried document.myForm.myTextArea.focus() which works in regular Safari, but it does not seem to work in Mobile Safari.
To clarify, I want to set focus to a text box as soon as the user loads a page, and have the iPhone keyboard pop up.
Just found this previous post stating this is a bug in webkit. Sorry for not doing a more thorough search.
http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?t=127724
I found a bug report with the iUI project relating to this.
It seems that a focus() call will not work if called from the onload event or if called via a timer.
http://code.google.com/p/iui/issues/detail?id=129
Update: Although I have no source for this, I am told (by people who have tried it) that in iPhone OS 4 the problem with focus() and onload should be fixed.
Nothing to do with the timer, focus() doesnt work at all... im doing mine through an AJAX function. i guess my web application will have to suffer in mobile safari.
Bye the way, this also affects HP webOS devices and any other device using mobile safari
I'm using jQTouch to develop a version of a website optimized for safari on the iphone. The jQTouch demo helpfully shows how to show an "install this" message for users not using full screen mode and hide it for those who are. When in fullscreen mode, the body should have the class "fullscreen." So you can hide the "install this" message for people who have already added your app to their home page by adding this css rule to your stylesheet:
body.fullscreen #home .info {
display: none;
}
What I'd like to do is require users to use the app in fullscreen mode only. When viewed from the regular browser, they should only see a message asking them to install the app. That message should of course be hidden otherwise.
This ought to be really, really easy, so I must just be missing something obvious.
I thought one way to do this would be to simply test for the class "fullscreen" on the body: if it's not there, use goTo to get to another div, or hide the other divs, or something like that.
Strangely, however, this doesn't work. As a test, I've still got the original "info" message, as in the jQTouch demo, and it doesn't show up when I launch in fullscreen mode. So the body must have the fullscreen class. And yet I can't find any other trace of it: when I put this alert to test things after the document has loaded, I get nothing when launching in fullscreen mode:
alert($("body").attr("class"));
I also thought I might test for fullscreen mode by checking for the value of the fullScreen boolean. But this doesn't seem to work either. What am I missing? What is the best way to do this?
Well, I couldn't figure out why the standard way wasn't working, but someone on the jQTouch Google Group suggested this, which works:
if (window.navigator.standalone) {
alert ('Thanks for launching this app your home screen')
} else {
alert('Add this app to your home screen for the best experience')
}
Is it possible to Launch Safari without having the app close? Just like the in-app email compose window.
I'm aware of how to display a webpage in UIWebView. I'd like to use a full web browser, i.e. Safari.
You can use a UIWebView to display web content in your app.
You can create a UIWebView with the URL to display. It will follow any links that the user touches, but that won't give you the address bar, search, navigation buttons, bookmarks or the page (tab) control. Those you'll have to add yourself, but odds are you don't want all of that. (Do you really need Google searches in your app?)
Creating a controller to manage a UIWebView and as much or as little navigation as you need is pretty easy. With a little planning, your custom controller class will also a good thing to keep in your library for the next app.
No you can not make use of the full Safari from within your own application. Your application must terminate for Safari to open.
In iPhone OS 2.0 you also had to terminate in order to send e-mails, so some chance exists that Apple couls open up Safari in the same way for iPhone OS 4.0. Make sure to request it at http://bugreport.apple.com if you are eager.
The second best option currently available is to roll your own "Browser view controller" using UIWebView. Let it have back, forward, stop/reload buttons, and an extra button for opening in Safari if the user is not content. This is how many of the greatest apps our there, like Tweetie, does it.