I have to open my apps link in the app store in case the version number of the app they are using is not the most current version of my application. I know how to open it in the app store, but my app is for a few different countries so do i need to specifiy what appstore they have to download the app from? Like my apps in london and china, do i need to customize the url to open up those app stores?
The App Store page will be displayed based on the current user's phone locale.
Nothing to do on your side but using the generic link
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I use Unity for my apps.
Browsing the App Store I saw some apps, such as "Google Chrome" that have the background above the icon in the store listing.
My question is, how do I put it for my apps? With Android it is easy, there is the image to insert on Play Console, but on Apple I have not found anything about it.
Should I enter it via Unity? Or how should I do?
There isn't an option for this on App Store Connect. Apple reaches out to developers for whom they promote on the store or whose apps are featured in Stories on the App Store.
Read over the page here about being featured on the App Store: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/getting-featured/
Side note: you'll notice that most apps with App Store banners are either (A) from large companies (like Google, as noted in your question) or (B) have been repeatedly featured on the App Store (like 1Password).
I'm wondering if there is a way to open an app when clicking on a link in safari (or other browser) in iOS.
My app posts the name of a location, a screenshot on Twitter/Facebook which also has a link. I need to detect when the user clicks that link if he is on a pc or iOS device. If they're not on iOS device I want to continue to the linked page otherwise I want to open the app and also take take that location name as a parameter when opening it.
If the app has registered a custom URL scheme the device will open the particular app when it's asked to open a URL of a particular scheme.
This stems from the CFBundleURLSchemes key of your apps infoPlist. Apple's documentation has all the information you need to get started.
To register a URL type for your app, include the CFBundleURLTypes key
in your app’s Info.plist file. The CFBundleURLTypes key contains an
array of dictionaries, each of which defines a URL scheme the app
supports. Table 6-2 describes the keys and values to include in each
dictionary.
See more here at the iOS Programming Guide: Advanced App Tricks under 'Communicating with Other Apps' section.
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In order to support the specific functionality of your question you need to go one step deeper.
Your first link needs to be a standard web URL.
The page presented from the first URL needs to detect the device and forward the user onto a second URL that will open the app on the device, with whatever parameters you want to forward to the app.
So - what you're going to have to do is build some sort of device detection into the page that your first URL points to. On that page, detect the device, then conditionally forward the user onto the second URL that will be the custom URL of your particular app.
It's possible to do this device detection, and detect if they have the app installed on their device with some of the newer HTML5 features supported by mobile browsers, but your question is themed around opening apps with URLs in iOS and the main native iOS hooks you need to support opening apps (with parameters and all) is in the documentation above.
We have a popular Facebook Application and a version of our App for the iPhone. I was wondering how we can make our Application appear in the "Apps" Section on the new Facebook iPhone app. On my iPhone I currently see links to the App store for Pixable, Badoo, Airbnb, Foursquare and WhoisNear iPhone Application.
I have filled out the Native iOS App settings in the Developer section on Facebook (including adding the Bundle ID and the iPhone app store ID) several weeks ago thinking it took a while to update, but still nothing shows up on my iPhone app.
Any help would be appreciated.
Best,
M
Screenshot of where we want our app to show up:
Edit your Application Settings and on the Basic Settings specify a Mobile Web URL for your Mobile Web integration. You should be able to set the URL to your app's iTunes URL.
Fill out the iOS information within the admin settings of your application, which also means they are using the same application id. You also have to have granted at least the basic permissions via connect on the app, and have the app installed on the phone.
Hi can any one suggest me it is possible or not and if possible then how?
The premise is that the user pays for the app via a website and they gets an access code to send to her guests via the website. The user downloads the free app from the iPhone store and enters the code. We're trying to figure out if we can enable each user to customize the app icon so it can appear with a different image or text on the user phone.
You can't. The application's icon (and the application's property list file) is in the application bundle, which cannot be modified.
This would also violate the iOS SDK Terms of Use and the iTunes Store Terms of Service; you cannot have a third-party receive payment to access a free iOS application.
You can customize the iOS icon of a web app clipping, and put the web site to be clipped behind your private paywall. Apple has been reported in the past to accept App store apps that generate URLs to customized clippable web apps. No idea if they currently or will continue to do so.
Icons on App store iOS apps for stock OS devices can only be changed by Apple approving an update.
Evan is right... This goes against so many terms of the iOS SDK.
One thing you could do (but I can't guarantee it will be accepted by Apple) is create a registration system on your website. Then have a login on the App as soon as it loads and check that the user has a valid account which has paid the subscription. You would have to handle all of your payment stuff on the webside though, meaning the app would be useless unless the user has already sorted that out. If you do this, on submission of your app make sure you provide Apple with a demo account username and password!
As for the icon, you can't change it once the App is submitted. It is bundled in with your app binary and there is also a logo included in iTunes connect. You can change them, but only by submitting a new binary.
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Hi all,
I'm a littile bit confused. I need to provide the download link of my application (the iTunes link) inside my application. ie when the user would like to invite others via mail or some other means, have to provide the application link too with that.Is there any way to provide that before submitting the application to apple. Or i need to use the link as an update after getting my application approved by apple?
To be able to provide an iTunes URL, you should know the unique ID for your app and AFAIK, there's no way to get this ID before getting your app in the store first.
You can try and construct a search URL, but it doesn't always give the desired result. For example, I currently have only one app in the store, but there's another developer who uses the same developer name as me, so a search URL for my app produces two results. If this is your first app, and searching for your developer name produces no results, it could be safe for you to go with a search URL.
Even if you use a search URL, you will want to replace it with a proper iTunes URL in the first update.
Read this article by Bjango for more information on iTunes URLs and quirks of using search URLs: Dissecting iTunes links