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Dan Gibson
Dan Gibson

Reputation: 151

Custom iPhone App That Adds Icon/Weblink to Desktop

I need to create a super basic script package that will install like a regular iPhone app but only puts an icon on the user's desktop that links to a mobile website that I specify. I'm a PHP developer and am slightly familiar with Java but simply need a boost due to time constraints. Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 387

Answers (2)

Oleg Trakhman
Oleg Trakhman

Reputation: 2082

In your application delegate:

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {
    [application openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://yourwebsite.com"]]; 
}

That's all!

P.S.

Okay, I've made step-by-step instructions for you: 1) Open Xcode 2) Make a new project (file->new->new project -> Empty application) 3) Open AppDelegate.m (name may vary (depends on XCode version), so look for just ***Delegate.m ) 4) Replace 

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {  
//...everything...
}

With what I've wrote above. (that is to say replace contents of the class method with another method which just opens URL)

Upvotes: 0

Ben Scheirman
Ben Scheirman

Reputation: 40951

You can just create a mobile friendly website and invite users to add it to their home screen. A nice way to do this is found here:

http://cubiq.org/add-to-home-screen

Add to Home Screen

The iPhone will display a nice icon if your site has a tag like this:

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="path/myicon.png"/>

More info here:

http://woorkup.com/2010/08/06/how-t-custom-home-screen-and-web-clip-icons/

Upvotes: 2

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