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Leon
Leon

Reputation: 3746

Link to Developer Page Doesn't Work on iPad

I want a link to show my apps from within my apps, I'm currently using the following url format:

itms-apps://itunes.com/apps/developername

Which I got from this thread:

How to link to apps on the app store

It works fine on the iPhone but on the iPad it doesn't load anything in the App Store app, it's a blank page.

I have found another questions asking the same thing but have yet to find an answer

Link to app store for update - works iPhone not on iPad?

Anyone got this issue too?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 175

Answers (2)

Dev01
Dev01

Reputation: 14169

Apple just annonced the appstore.com urls, just tested it out on iOS 7 and it's working on the ipad with affiliate links.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/qa/qa1633/_index.html

There are three types of App Store Short Links, in two forms, one for iOS apps, another for Mac Apps:

Company Name

iOS: http://appstore.com/ for example, http://appstore.com/apple

Mac: http://appstore.com/mac/ for example, http://appstore.com/mac/apple

App Name

iOS: http://appstore.com/ for example, http://appstore.com/keynote

Mac: http://appstore.com/mac/ for example, http://appstore.com/mac/keynote

App by Company

iOS: http://appstore.com// for example, http://appstore.com/apple/keynote

Mac: http://appstore.com/mac// for example, http://appstore.com/mac/apple/keynote

Most companies and apps have a canonical App Store Short Link. This canonical URL is created by changing or removing certain characters (many of which are illegal or have special meaning in a URL (for example, "&")).

To create an App Store Short Link, apply the following rules to your company or app name:

Remove all whitespace

Convert all characters to lower-case

Remove all copyright (©), trademark (™) and registered mark (®) symbols

Replace ampersands ("&") with "and"

Remove most punctuation (See Listing 2 for the set)

Replace accented and other "decorated" characters (ü, å, etc.) with their elemental character (u, a, etc.)

Leave all other characters as-is.

Listing 2 Punctuation characters that must be removed.

!¡"#$%'()*+,-./:;<=>¿?@[]^_`{|}~

Below are some examples to demonstrate the conversion that takes place.

App Store

Company Name examples

Gameloft => http://appstore.com/gameloft

Activision Publishing, Inc. => http://appstore.com/activisionpublishinginc

Chen's Photography & Software => http://appstore.com/chensphotographyandsoftware

App Name examples

Ocarina => http://appstore.com/ocarina

Where’s My Perry? => http://appstore.com/wheresmyperry

Brain Challenge™ => http://appstore.com/brainchallenge

Upvotes: 2

Leon
Leon

Reputation: 3746

Okay I managed to get it working by removing the apps part from the URL. i.e.

itms-apps://itunes.com/developername

I hope this may help someone else.

Upvotes: 1

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