I am creating a hosted app for chrome web browser. I want to include an option for this app so that user can specifiy the URL that the app opens by default. For example, they may want the app to open http://myapp.com/username or http://myapp.com/somethingelse.
Following this, I added "options_page": "options.html" to my manifest file and added options.html. However, I couldn't load the app. My browser said:
Could not load extension from '/home/cookiemon/path/to/myapp'. Invalid value for 'options_page'. Hosted apps must specify an absolute URL.
Does this mean, for hosted apps, I can only include a URL to a page on a web server?
Yes. Hosted apps aren't much more than bookmarks with slightly enhanced capabilities. Moreover, they're legacy app types that will likely be deprecated. If you want your app to work offline, build a Chrome App.
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I'm working on universal link first time i have set all needed things but URL not opening my Mobile app. My server side file is with specific folder and with out folder
My Xcode settings is
My App entitlement file Target membership also selected
Link which i want to open
My Appstore BundleID, prefix and configuration
My app url on server is https://beta-dev.callingdr.com:92/patient
Every thing is good but URL is open web app in safari not opening internal mobile app i don't no what is wrong. Help me out. I know its duplicate question but not any answer is helping me out.
Thanks
I think your hosting url is not proper.
According to apple documentation:
After you create the apple-app-site-association file, upload it to the root of your HTTPS web server or to the .well-known subdirectory. The file needs to be accessible via HTTPS—without any redirects—at https://<domain>/apple-app-site-association or https://<domain>/.well-known/apple-app-site-association. Next, you need to handle universal links in your app.
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/General/Conceptual/AppSearch/UniversalLinks.html
My suggestion:
https://beta-dev.callingdr.com:92/.well-known/apple-app-site-association
or
https://beta-dev.callingdr.com:92/apple-app-site-association
I built a native Windows app (non Windows-Store) that uses the Facebook API.
I wanted to make it public which means going through their review process which means (among other things) selecting the app's platform.
Sadly a native Windows app is not one of the choices: Facebook app platform selection screenshot
I found 2 unanswered questions on SO on the same topic:
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How should this be done in a proper way?
Thanks in advance.
PS:
I found a post a few days ago where the poster said he registered such an app by setting the platform to "web site" (I didn't keep the link).
This does not look like a good long term solution and also I don't have a domain to provide.
In short, you must set your platform to Web.
The reason for this can be found in the official documentation on building your native logon flow. There is no secure way of creating a logon flow without a server, as this would imply storing your App Secret inside your binary or app config file.
So the recommended (and only supported) way is to create a server which stores the App Secret and handles authentication for you. And use this server from the WebBrowser/WebView control which you embed into your native application.
This means you use the logon flow from a web browser via a custom server and you should have a domain for it (a domain is quite cheap nowdays, it should not be a problem). So you are building a web app embedded into a native app.
For a successful login review do the following:
Choose Web as your platform
On the Settings page in the Advanced tab choose Native App.
Create a screencast (Start your app, logon, use all the requested permissions and that's it. Do not edit it!) and upload it to the web (YouTube/Vimeo/...)
When submitting provide a link to your screencast.
I am developing a firefox os packaged app. For my app what will be the values of red marked portions. Please see the following picture.
I think you should be able to put the URL of your application if it's a hosted one or the URL of your website for App Domains. As for the platform, choose the website. Let me know if it's working.
I'd like to be able to send invitation in an email to a specific "event" happening inside my iOS app. So I figured I'd need to use custom URL. That's fine.
But I'd also like to be able to handle the user that doesn't have the app installed yet, to be taken to a mobile Safari and to the webpage with installation instructions for the app.
What would be the best way to do it?
I could try the following:
In the email I send a link to a http://www.example.com/joinevent/?id=foo
User is taken to a Safari webpage that sends a redirect to mycustomscheme://joinevent/?id=foo
If the user doesn't have the app installed this redirection won't work and he stays in the Safari - I could then handle the displaying of installation instructions probably.
But this approach doesn't seem "natural" for me. Is there a better/more native way to do it?
Try http://rdrct.it
It is a web service that allows you to achieve exactly this functionality very easily.
Full disclosure - I created rdrct.it
Here's the basics:
Login to the site, create a project for your particular app. Choose a unique code (this could be the name of your app).
You'll then be provided with a URL in the form: http://rdrct.it/uniqueCode
Once you've done that, you need to register the app's ID in the app store, and also details about the custom URL scheme. Tick "Auto-redirect" - what it will then do is try to open the app, and if that fails, it will automatically send the user to the app store.
If the app is opened, then the querystring is also passed to the app, so in your example case, the device will have been served: mycustomscheme://joinevent/?id=foo
It also works across multiple device types, so if you have the app available for Blackberry, Android or Windows Phone, then it will also do the same for those depending on which device type the user is using.
Like I said, I created it, but it should solve your problem.
If you are using Distimo to track you app analytics, they provide a shortlink to your apps that can be used also used to track conversions. It shows a custom page depending on the device used to access. This is especially convenient if you have the same app published in the AppStore, Google Play, Amazon, etc.
On iphone my native app has an URL, so that if you type an url starting with myapp:// it will open my app and it will handle the URL and go to the relevant place.
Is there a way to get these urls as a web app bookmark on the iphone's homescreen?
EDIT: To put it another way, I want add a webapp to link to my native app.
This is not possible. Never will be, as duplicates may occur then, e.g. two web apps with goatse://…, as Apple cannot check web apps.
It is possible to add Web Clips without going into Safari, and to specify a custom URL. But the Apple docs say that Web Clips will only work if the protocol is http or https (i.e. not my app://)