iPhone apps: Can I open an app from a link in a website?

Question

I\'m a newbie iPhone developer, writing an app that will kind of be the \"mobile version\" of a website.

I\'m wondering whether it\'s possible to launch my app from

Answer 1

Certain apps have URL schemes that will launch them. If an app has published this scheme (or if you dig around in their bundle) you can launch it. For example, a hypothetical twitter app might launch with a twitterapp://here+is+my+tweet URL. If you preload your app with the correct URL scheme, you can do this for yours, too.

Here's a sample URL scheme from the info.plist:

CFBundleURLTypes

    
        CFBundleURLName
        com.standalone.cooltwitterapp
        CFBundleURLSchemes
        
            twitterapp