“Gift App” from inside the app

Question

I noticed that on the latest angry birds update they added a feature to gift your app from inside the app.

Up till now I knew you can gift paid apps from the iTunes

Answer 1

I have here some step-by-step instructions in how to add a 'Gift This App' button into your app:

1. Add a button in your XIB and add an action to it.

2. In your .m add the actions brackets e.g:

   -(IBAction)actionName {
   
   } 
   

3. add this code in and replace APP_ID with the number in the apps web page link for e.g. itunes.apple.com/au/app/[APPNAME]/id**APP_ID**?mt=8

   this is a code e.g:

   - (IBAction)actionName 
   {
       [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"https://buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/giftSongsWizard?gift=1&salableAdamId=**[APP_ID]**&productType=C&pricingParameter=STDQ"]];
   }
   

Hope this helps!