Need some help with iPhone development here....
I made a custom URL scheme for my app. It allows other apps, as well as Mobile Safari, to launch my app. It looks somewhat like this:
myapp://
This will launch "myapp". If I type that into Mobile Safari, my app launches.
I've created a website that, in the end, redirects to myapp:// and launches the app. The problem is that now every time I open Mobile Safari manually, my app automatically gets launched. It's stuck. I have to kill the windows quickly in Mobile Safari, or kill Safari in the task manager, in order for this looping to stop.
Does anyone have a solution to this? Even if I do the following:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://www.newurl.com/"]];
It opened Mobile Safari, and then opens the URL I want to go to, but for some reason if my redirect page is still open somewhere in the background it just relaunches my app again.
Thanks.
The issue, I think, is that mobile safari is trying to load myapp:// whenever the browser itself is opened (because it is trying to load the corresponding tab). A solution might be to programmatically close the browsing tab once you have been redirected your app- that way the page does not stay in mobile safari, redirecting you every time you open the browser.
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For more information see check Apple Implementing Custom URL Schemes.
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You can't. When you redirect someone out of your application the only way to get back is using the task switcher or opening your application from the home screen again.
If you want to keep the user in your application you could open the web pages in a webview within your application
use UIwebViewController . that represent web link within app . so that your app wont be in back ground and add back button in navigation bar on click back button navigate to back screen . i guess it would be better
i would launch an in app browser...
this is a good uiviewcontroller subclass that has most of the browser functions already implemented. its very easy to use.
https://github.com/samvermette/SVWebViewController
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As usual I call
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:loginURL];
This close the app and calls the login page inside Safari.
Once logged, the app is opened once again using a callback address and the iPhone URL registration feature.
The question here is:
Since the app is closed when I call Safari, the debug stops. How can I continue the debug?
Thanks
You can, however, get XCode to connect to an application the next time it's launched. You bring up the inspector on your executable and check the "Wait for next launch/push notification" box. This is explained in more detail here.
The other alternative would be to use a UIWebView inside your app rather than switching to Safari.