Opening the Apple TV App Store

Question

Trying to build a tvOS app and one of the use cases I have is to be able to link off and open another app in the Apple TV App Store directly on a button click. Can someone p

Answer 1

Unfortunately this is not possible with the current tvOS.

On iOS, as advised by Apple in QA1629, we would do:

NSString *iTunesLink = @"https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/apple-store/id375380948?mt=8";
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:iTunesLink]];

The above request goes through Safari which does not exist on tvOS. Therefore, it won't work.

However, Custom URL Schemes are supported on tvOS which might help at least a bit.