I\'ve read many many blogs and examples of how to open an app from an URL scheme (for example, this blog), and it seems to work great when I call my app from
Due to the way that the Chrome app appears to be developed, it doesn't seem this is possible at present without a jailbreak (and even then, not easily). You should go bug the Google Chrome iOS team to fix this (e.g. try to open in all registered apps with URL schemes before googling). Sorry I couldn't be of more use, but there just doesn't seem to be an easy way around it.