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samin.yasar
samin.yasar

Reputation: 91

Skype Video Call URI

I am working on a simple app that initiates Skype calls.

It successfully initiates Skype audio call using apple's URI scheme

[NSURL URLWithString:@"skype:skype_id?call"]).

But when I try to make a video call using

[NSURL URLWithString:@"skype:skype_id?call&video=true"]

it still initiates audio call and launches Skype but nothing happens after that (no audio call or video call is made). I have seen some posts where people mentioned that they used similar URI for making video calls for Skype in iOS that worked fine before but now it doesn't work.

I should mention that Android version of the app our team is working on have no such issue. It successfully starts making video call using same URI.

Is this a problem of latest version of skype developed for iOS?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1816

Answers (2)

steve
steve

Reputation: 778

this seems to be totally bust in skype for iOS. even skype://username?call comes up with a fairly unintuitive modal saying "Placing call with..." which does NOTHING unless you click "Voice Call" All works fine in other systmes / browsers (windows, mac osx, android), though https is bust in chrome. which is just dandy.

maybe https://stackoverflow.com/users/1383154/allen-smith or someone from skypes side can comment??

according to http://handleopenurl.com/scheme/skype you can use skype://username?chat in an html link. Now that sort of works - as in it opens skype, but still doesnt initiate the call.

Upvotes: 1

Devin McQueeney
Devin McQueeney

Reputation: 1287

You can't use the &video=true - IOS doesn't like it. Just use the ?call and it will work the same way it should (as if you appended the &video=true to it) and place a video call if video is available.

The skype stuff is pretty flaky - and my only success has been to use the skype buttons (using the skype-uri.js file and associated javascript for creating the buttons under HTTP (NOT HTTPS). HTTPS tends to break things in Chrome, and a few others.

What I did was sniff for IOS and remove the video=true accordingly so it works fine for all the other browsers too. End of the day, Skype really needs to clean up their act.

Upvotes: -1

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