In My Application I Want use Native iPhone Application. For this purpose i get the code as below
UIApplication *app = [UIApplication sharedApplication];
[app openURL:[NSURL URLWithString: #"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=London"]];
It is Working Fine. But it will come outs from the My App. I want Show this is as one of my screens such like We opening Camera in Our apps as a Screen. Similarly i want to show iPhone Native App as a one of my View in My Application.
You cannot show another app as a direct view in your application. Instead you'll need to add the MKMapKit framework to your project, make a new UIViewController in your project and in Interface Builder add in the MapKit UI element. You can find tutorials online on how to use MapKit in your app to load specific areas on the map and do really neat things with it.
EDIT:
http://www.raywenderlich.com/2847/introduction-to-mapkit-on-ios-tutorial
You need to use MKMapView if you want a native map.
If you want to pass it a location like that you will also need to do some geocoding. Apple provide all of these API's but it isn't one line of code!
I suppose that you dont want to use MKMapKit as you didn't mentioned. If you want to show a web page in your app with request URL then you can do it with UIWebView.
You can load your request URL in web view as :-
NSString * urlStr = #"http://maps.google.com/maps?q=London" ;
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlStr];
[webview loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url]];
(2) i want to show iPhone Native App as a one of my View in My Application
For that you can NOT.
Related
i have this idiotic Question .
Is there any way open an another ios Application inside a view controller of a app.
I know we can open a another Ios app if we have url schema and the calling application goes to background and called application goes to background.
Is there any way ?? i just got a dream ,so am asking can we do it??
It is not possible to do it with the iPhone SDK. You can do this though by using Private APIs.
You can make it work on jailbroken devices.
But if you want to call native social apps like facebook or twitter you should use this code.
It works and apple approves it.
NSURL *fbNativeAppURL = [NSURL URLWithString:#"fb://"];
if ( [[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:fbNativeAppURL])
{
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:fbNativeAppURL];
}
or
NSURL *twNativeAppURL = [NSURL URLWithString:#"twitter://"];
if ( [[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:twNativeAppURL])
{
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:twNativeAppURL];
}
This is very strange to me...
I have a simple WebView that loads and interacts with the user exactly like safari mobile (iPhone). Now when you visit m.youtube.com in safari, the url changes when you click on a link to something like this...
http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en&client=mv-google&v=HX6SyoZ5kw8
The problem with this is I don't think that url is being used in my webview... What do I mean? The following code is used to load a url every time the user try's to click on a link, and it works, but I have a problem with Youtube...
- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView*)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest*)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {
NSURL *url = request.URL;
NSString *urlString = url.absoluteString;
NSLog(#"%#",urlString);
VideoURLTextBox.text = urlString;
return YES;
}
When I first start up the webview it loads m.youtube.com and NSLogs() it into my console, but when I decide to click on a video it fails to NSLog() therefore I don't think a new url is being loaded, but when you load m.youtube.com in safari and click on a video you load a url like above, so why does this not NSLog() in my iPhone application?
What your probably seeing is that the youtube video is running javascript to play the video, you'd have to intercept the javascript callbacks to see that. Here's a link to the youtube video player api, detailing the callbacks, https://developers.google.com/youtube/js_api_reference#SubscribingEvents
If you just want to embed a youtube video in an iOS application then use this.
Using the mobile YouTube site isn't great, I had lots of problems with it in the past and ended up making a UIWebView category. I came across your question and decided to throw it on github :-)
https://github.com/enigmaticflare/UIWebView-YouTube--iOS-Category--ARC-compliant-code
UIWebView+YouTube iOS category to simplify loading youtube videos.
Instructions
1) Add these files to your project
UIWebView+YouTube.h
UIWebView+YouTube.m
2) Initiate UIWebView for example
#property (strong, nonatomic) UIWebView *webView;
#synthesize webView = _webView
_webView = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,212,172];
//set the X,Y origin of CGRect to where you want the webView to appear.
_webView.delegate = self;
[_webView loadYouTubeVideoID:#"gR8dO7Cln6M"];
[self.view addSubView:_webView];
Good luck, hope this is what your looking for :)
Adam
m.youtube.com is one giant java web app, delegate methods won't get called, presumably because any loading is written directly to the DOM in the UIWebView. Ran into this problem at work, not sure of the fix but there may be a way to inject the source with a JS click handler.
For legal reasons, I'm obligated to show Terms of Service in my application, a PDF on an external server. What I believe would be easiest to do would be to create a UIBarButton item and then create an IBAction that launches the link in Safari.
So I create a button:
IBOutlet UIBarButtonItem *legal;
Then I make it into a nonatomic property and synthesize it in my implementation file, right? I go on to create an IBAction:
-(IBAction)legalButtonPressed:(id)sender;
I go into my implementation file, and here's where the issue comes. When it comes to defining those actions, I become confused. As I am new to iOS development, I could use some guidance. I don't know how to force the link into safari in the action. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
IBOutlet and IBActions are used for Interface Builder connections. If you have your UIBarButtonItem on a xib file, you can connect its action to the controller by right clicking in the files owner object. The same with the outlet.
Once you have the action in the controller connected to the button in the xib file, (I see no need to get an outlet here), you just implement the method as follows:
-(IBAction)legalButtonPressed:(id)sender {
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString: #"http://yourdomain.com/legal.pdf"]];
}
this will automatically open safari with the given url
Take a look at UIApplication's documentation, it has a openURL method you might find useful.
Another option is to include your legal text in a UITextView.
Example:
By clicking Join you agree to company's
Terms of Service, found here: http://www.site.com/tos.html and
Privacy Policy, found here: http://www.site.com/privacy.html
Make sure Link Detection is turned on in the UITextView and it will automatically recognize URLs. Any clicks on those URLs will automatically launch Safari.
Although you can do this approach (i.e. launch the link in Safari). I would suggest that you try to keep the user as much as possible in your app. I am guessing this LEGAL TERMS is a HTML doc?
You can do that using UIWebView. Init a webView and do this -
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:webAddress];
NSURLRequest *req = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[webView loadRequest:req];
This will open the url in your app only! You can make the UIWebView open up as a modal window or in many other ways...
I have the following code
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"workingUrl"];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];
which currently loads the url correctly but when the user is done, they have to exit and go back into my app.
How can the browser be loaded from within my app?
Regards
You have to make a little browser yourself. Create a View Controller with a UIWebView and some buttons that tigger it's methods (forward, back, reload, etc).
I want to add a button to my iPhone application which will open an URL in safari on iPhone when clicked (my application will terminate right?)
Thanks.
Raihan
You need to use - (BOOL)openURL:(NSURL *)url in UIApplication.
UIApplication is a singleton, so your code would look something like this:
NSURL *url;
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];
Your app will close if you are simply opening in Safari.
You can, however, use a WebView control to embed the web browser in your app. This way your app will not terminate.