Lunching an LiveCode iOS app from another app

Todd Geist todd at geistinteractive.com
Tue Jan 10 16:53:49 EST 2012


Thanks Ken,

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Ken Ray <kray at sonsothunder.com> wrote:

>
> On Jan 10, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Todd Geist wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need a way to Launch a LiveCode app on IOS from another app.  This is
> > often done with a custom URL scheme.  Is there a way to get a Live Code
> app
> > to use a custom url scheme?
>
> There is on the desktop, but I don't know about iOS… on the desktop you'd
> add a custom URL protocol to the info.plist file of the standalone by
> adding this inside the first <dict> tag (I'm using a fictitious "MyApp"
> application here):
>
>        <key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
>        <array>
>                <dict>
>                        <key>CFBundleURLName</key>
>                        <string>MyApp URL</string>
>                        <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
>                        <array>
>                                <string>myapp</string>
>                        </array>
>                        <key>LSIsAppleDefaultForScheme</key>
>                        <true/>
>                </dict>
>        </array>
>
> This would cause the MyApp application to launch whenever the url
> "myapp://" was executed. Not sure if this works on iOS, but perhaps you
> could try it?
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
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