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A cocoa method on iOS letting developers access other apps from inside an app.

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Launch an app from within another (iPhone)

Is it possible to launch any arbitrary iPhone application from within another app?, For example in my application if I want the user to push a button and launch right into the Phone app (close the current app, open the Phone app). would this be…
Jeff
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OSX Swift open URL in default browser

How to open a URL in the system default browser by using Swift as programming language and OSX as platform? I found a lot with UIApplication like: UIApplication.sharedApplication().openURL(NSURL(string: object.url)) but this works just on iOS and…
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iOS: How to debug "freshly launching" an app from a URL

When launching an app from a URL, there is a distinction between whether the URL is freshly launching an app, or if it's resuming an app that has been put into a suspended state. My question is, how do I debug the process of a "fresh launch" from a…
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Link to app manage subscriptions in app store

Currently with In app purchase the only way to cancel an auto-renewing subscription is to do the following with the device: Settings > Store > View my account > Manage my subscription Is it possible programmatically to link directly to the Manage…
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OpenURL in iOS10

So apparently OpenURL has been deprecated in iOS 10. Does anyone have any documentation on why or can explain what to do next? I looked on the Apple site already and found a few things pertaining to OpenURL and this is what they say to use…
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How to use openURL for making a phone call in Swift?

I have converted the code for making a phone call from Objective-C to Swift, but in Objective-C, we can set the type of the URL that we like to open (e.g. telephone, SMS, web) like…
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OpenUrl freezes app for over 10 seconds

I'm currently developing an App, that needs to open a browser to display a webpage. To do that i use the [UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL method with an url. In iOS 6 this works perfectly, but in iOS 7 it freezes the app for 10+ seconds,…
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iOS system hangs before opening App Store URL

I have a HTML page with a Download app button. When clicked by an iOS user, it redirect the users to the App Store via itms-services. The link I used here is: window.location.replace("itms-apps://itunes.apple.com/app/id578505616"); It looks like…
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How to link to Update page for our app

We prompt users to upgrade their app if they're running an outdated version. When users tap our update button, I use openURL with an address like itms://itunes.apple.com/us/app/our-app-title/id12345?mt=8 to load the App Store app to the listing for…
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How to handle UIApplication handleOpenURL with multiple URL's

I have an app that will be using both Facebook and Instagram API's, both of which require me to use this delegate method: - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application openURL:(NSURL *)url sourceApplication:(NSString *)sourceApplication…
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opneUrl react-native linking call, mailto

I am trying to open a url ( "tel:061245124" or "mailto:test@test.com") and it says that i can handle url, also tried without the tel: or mail to but it crashes with a red screen. Urls like "http://test.com" work. What am I doing wrong? …
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iTunes app link cannot open page in safari in simulator and also iDevices

I hope this may be duplicate question. But none of the answers didn't hard help me. I am trying to open a link from my iOS application. When I press the button, It opens the safari app and it always says an alert "Safari cannot open the page because…
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ios 8 openUrl itms-services does not exit current app

In iOS 6 or 7, the app exit to the home screen when I call UIApplication openUrl with a url of itms-services://XXXX to install a new version of my app (using enterprise deployment with ipa files). In iOS 8, this is no longer the case. Now the app…
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FBSDKApplicationDelegate application openURL:sourceApplication:annotation deprecated

with iOS9 application openURL:sourceApplication:annotation is deprecated func application(application: UIApplication, openURL url: NSURL, sourceApplication: String?, annotation: AnyObject?) -> Bool { return…
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openURL from App Extension

On iOS 8 beta 2 it should be possible to use openUrl from app extension as written into the release notes: however when I try to use this API (on Xcode 6 beta 2) I get the following error: Beta 2 really fixed this issue or not?
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