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saikamesh
saikamesh

Reputation: 4629

Launching application from a SMS message

I am new to iphone application development.

I have a sample application that needs to be launched from a SMS message. I have no idea on how to do this. Please help me.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4179

Answers (4)

Durai Amuthan.H
Durai Amuthan.H

Reputation: 32320

the below appdelegate method tells the full url that used to open your app

 -(BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application handleOpenURL:(NSURL *)url
{
  //you could parse the url and take action according to that
}

The below app delegate method tells which app caused to open your app

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application openURL: (NSURL *)url sourceApplication:(NSString *)sourceApplication
     annotation:(id)annotation
{
 //you could capture the refered app custom url and open back from your app
return YES;

}

with following code snippet you could open the app that opened your app

 NSURL *urlObj = [NSURL URLWithString:url];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:urlObj];

Pass the custom app url.

Upvotes: 1

saikamesh
saikamesh

Reputation: 4629

It works fine. thanks hhafez!

I composed a SMS with url format "myapp://". It didn't work. Then I tried "", then it worked. thanks Brad!

Upvotes: 0

Brad Larson
Brad Larson

Reputation: 170317

Note that if SMS operates in the same manner as Mail on the iPhone, you'll need to enclose your custom URL in brackets to make it launch the application responding to that scheme. For example, 

<yourapp://yoururl>

will work, but 

yourapp://yoururl

will not.

Upvotes: 8

hhafez
hhafez

Reputation: 39810

Allow your application to respond to some url (eg: myapp://launch ) and include the url in the SMS, when the user launches that URL your application will launch.

I'm sure that is not the most straight forward way (since the SMS needs to include your custom URL) but I don't know if it is possible with any arbitrary SMS to launch an arbitrary applciation

do a google on iphone URL scheme and you will find lots of detail on how to implement this

here is an example

Upvotes: 5

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