I have an app that uses OAuth to authenticate, which means the user must be directed to the website to authorize the application. I prefer to make it obvious to the user that they are using a standard browser to authorize at the original site rather than just using a web view to show the content within my app. However, every time they are directed to Safari (via openURL), it launches a new Safari window and once Safari has 8 windows open, it simply fails to work at all.
I'm wondering if there is an equivalen to the "target" attribute of an anchor tag in html which would allow me to cause all openURL calls from my application to open in the same window.
There is other functionality that I can expose via the web application, creating a hybrid app between native iphone functionality and web app functionality in Safari, but if I have to launch a new window every time I switch between the app and Safari, it becomes unworkable. The Youtube app is obviously able to return the user to the previous page after showing a video, but that might well be a custom plugin in Safari for iphone. Also, while returning to the previous page is somewhat useful, sending them to a new URL in the existing window really opens up a lot of possiblities.
I'm pretty sure there is no way to pass a target parameter to openURL:.
What I noticed about Safari is that it won't open another tab if the page you are opening with openURL: is/was already open in Safari. It just reloads that page. This might sound trivial and not helpful but perhaps you could use it to your advantage if you can make your web application only use one page. Different views or states could be expressed with #anchor tags.
An example is http://m.flickr.com. Notice their URL structure? It goes http://m.flickr.com/#/home, http://m.flickr.com/#/explore/interesting/, http://m.flickr.com/#/search and so on. All of these are different web pages to the user but to Safari it's all the same page.
I found iOS 6.0.1 Safari will open the same tab with a simple hashtag, without the slashes. So with the above example http://m.flickr.com, openURL to http://m.flickr.com#someinfo opens to the same tab.
In your webpage, use window.location.hash to return the params. In the above example it will return #someinfo.
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Attempting to load the Facebook MessengerExtensions appears not to work when using the in-browser experience for Facebook messenger (as opposed to the native apps on iOS or Android). When I interact with my bot's persistent menu to open a webview (that is trying to use MessengerExtensions), I get this error in the browser console of a newly opened tab:
Messenger Extensions are not enabled - could be "messenger_extensions" was not set on a url, the domain was not whitelisted or this is an outdated version of Messenger client
I have the impression that MessengerExtensions is simply not supported for the in-browser experience but have a couple of questions:
Can someone find where in the docs this lack of support is stated (because I've obviously missed it if it's there...)?
If this is supported somehow, suggestions for what I might be doing wrong? (I have confirmed that my persistent menu button has messenger_extensions: true and my web_url is whitelisted...)
Is there some kind of workaround (not using MessengerExtensions) for the webview opened in the browser to get the page-scoped user Id (PSUID) for the user interacting with the bot?
For a button generated with the Send API I could conceivably append the PSUID to the URL being opened as a query param (not sure of security considerations on that)
For the persistent menu the web_url of the button action is NOT dynamic (it's configured ahead of time) so I'm unsure how this URL when opened from the browser-based messenger interface is supposed to figure out what user opened it. Thoughts/Ideas?
I've just tried it on the chrome with facebook api version 2.10, and it works. When I clicked on the button, I got a "lightbox" looking window that opened on top of the messenger, and all the proper callbacks are called in javascript.
this is my button json:
{
type: 'web_url',
title: <title>,
url: <url>,
messenger_extensions: true,
fallback_url: <url>,
webview_height_ratio: 'tall'
}
these are a few things that I did:
the button spec should contain messenger_extensions: true
facebook whitelisted_domains doesn't do subdomains, so make sure you whitelist the entire url before the parameters.
fallback_url should be whitelisted as well.
I am struggling a little bit. I have a common url like www.domain.com/test.html
and i want Android users to get my app open if "test" is included, otherwise if they don't have the app their should be directed to the play store. I got everything implemented and it works with mozilla browser. But using chrome on Android it should be forbidden to automatically open the app if it is available!?. Now if the user enters www.domain.com/test.html and i recognize he is using Android and Chrome i tried the intent stuff in a script in a redirected www.domain.com/android_chrome.html:
<script> window.open("intent://scan/#Intent;scheme=zxing;package=com.google.zxing.client.android;S.browser_fallback_url=http%3A%2F%2Fzxing.org;end","_self")
</script>
But the App won't open automatically. If i use a regular Link:
Take a QR code
it works. But i want to let it open automatically!
Google restricted starting intents from javascript apps, that's why it isn't working. Security reasons I guess. You should just display nice big link to let user switch to your app instead of website - or let him continue if he doesn't want to launch the app.
Forcing users into using app is bad, IMO. Splash screen suggesting to use it is okay, but don't push it.
I'm writing an iPhone web app using HTML5/CSS3. I need to embed a link to open a built-in maps app from my web app. To open a location on the map I redirect mobile Safari to URL like this:
http://maps.google.com?q=Business+Name%26+Street+Address+City+State+Zip
In this case if a user taps on this link the iPhone opens up the maps app and displays the location specified in the URL.
But when I need to provide a URL for driving directions to a predefined location:
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=1234+1st+ave+portland+or&daddr=Business+Name%26+Street+Address+City+State+Zip
I've encountered a strange situation when in some cases the iPhone displays a pupup message:
Open this page in "Maps"?
with a choice of yes and no, and only if a user taps Yes, the maps opens up with directions. Note that this popup shows only for some addresses.
Is there any way to prevent this popup from showing at all?
I've created simple web page. Put a link and set google map link with query string value of particular address on src attribute of link element,run it to my iPhone 4.It is working fine, I'm not getting any window to ask it open on map app.
I noticed that you've used "saddr" as a query string parameter. You can replace that with "q" query string parameter.
in titanium, i'm using the webview to display a wordpress blog page, that is already formatted for mobile browser. instead of writing my own interface, this works as a good work around. the apps sole focus isn't the browser.
but my issue lies, when the user clicks a link outside of the initial displayed domain. i only want the main domain to be displayed in the apps browser. if any other link is clicked, that takes the user outside of that domain, i want to have it open in the phones default browser.
can anyone point me in a direction for this. i tried adding a listener to try and catch link clicks, however, i've been unsuccessful.
thanks
in this blog posting I show how to find links in a webpage and change the link behavior. Using the same method, you can intercept the links and redirect to opening the URL in the devices default browser
One solution would be to catch the onclick() Event by Javascript inside the WebView (your blog code) and handle this by a custom handler. Maybe you can inject the javascript event handler code into the running WebView through Titanium.
Another solution is to make your blogposts readable for app technology and create a new data interface. This is the way I would do. For that I would use some kind of JSON data format and a simple REST Interface to get the data.
I don't think bove solutions are that simple. If you want an app with "great feeling", you'll have to handle the events by your own. Maybe Phonegap would be a better solution four your problem. But there you will still need a kind of REST/JSON interface for your blog data. The idea behind an app is, that the main code is in your app and you get the content from a remote source. This way you'll get an advantage compared to a simple browser optimized site.
I have tried using iframe, javascript and image tag Ad tags in iPhone application, but none of them work. When a user clicks on an image, the browser is launched but then nothing happens (you get a blank page). Anyone know how to proceed?
To proceed: debug it. A standard OpenX click URL will do a redirect. What URL is the browser sticking at?
I don't know anything about iPhone applications, but I do know about interfacing to OpenX. You possible should consider using the OpenX API, which will allow you to pull all the information you need into the 'back end' of your application, then use it as you need.
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