CODEWITHSUNDEEP
iosobjective-c
user428946
user428946

Reputation: 11

How to open appStore from web link?

I'm able to open my appStore page a click event on a UIButton that has an IBAction associated, similar this:

- (IBAction) BuyFullAlbum {
    NSString *iTunesLink = @"http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=...";

    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:iTunesLink]];
}

It works fine. Now I need to upgrade my app, and I downloaded a post from a wordpress blog via rss and I want to display the post in a UIWebView. I can show the correct html from the post into the UIWebView, but now I decide to link the appStore to a webLink posted inside a webpage.

Why if I click on the link in the UIWebView, it opens the page of the app's review in the appStore and not the directly link to the appStore? Is this a way to go directly from a link in a web page to the appStore link of an app?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 10643

Answers (2)

Sig
Sig

Reputation: 5188

Looks like your link in the HTML is wrong. I has to be in a particular format to start up the app store app. I'd definitely use the linkmaker suggested by thyrgle. If you need more info the Apple URL Scheme Ref is helpful too.

Upvotes: 0

thyrgle
thyrgle

Reputation:

http://itunes.apple.com/linkmaker is this what your looking for? You can get the direct link once you find your app.

Upvotes: 7

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