How to fall back to marketplace when Android custom URL scheme not handled?

Question

We have an app that handles a custom URL scheme (vstream://). When someone comes to a web page that has some vstream:// content, we need to redirect them to the store if th

Answer 1

For some reasons, the final solution does not work for me on android (Is it just me?!!). The key is that iframe.onload function is NOT executed when your app is installed, and it IS executed when your app is NOT installed.

The solution becomes a little simpler actually. Here is the segment for "Older Android Browser" part:

    } else {

        // Older Android browser
        var iframe = document.createElement("iframe");
        iframe.style.border = "none";
        iframe.style.width = "1px";
        iframe.style.height = "1px";
        iframe.onload = function () { window.location = MARKET; };
        iframe.src = URL;
        document.body.appendChild(iframe);

    }