Launching Facetime from your app?

Question

I am seeing that you can launch FaceTime from your app via

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@\"facetime://tel-number\"]];
         


        

Answer 1

My app got rejected for using FaceTime url. This is the part of response i got from Apple in resolution center.

We found the following non-public API/s in your app: Specifically, your app uses the FaceTime URL scheme, which is undocumented.

If you have defined methods in your source code with the same names as the above-mentioned APIs, we suggest altering your method names so that they no longer collide with Apple's private APIs to avoid your application being flagged in future submissions.

It was an update of a previous release. The first version got accepted without any problem. Now the update has been rejected due to the above mentioned reason. Seems i have to publish the app without the FaceTime thingy now.

Edit:

Its now legal to use FaceTime url in third party apps.