Swift: How to open a new app when UIButton is tapped
Try this. For example you want to open an Instagram app:
let instagramHooks = "instagram://user?username=johndoe"
let instagramUrl = URL(string: instagramHooks)!
if UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(instagramUrl)
{
UIApplication.shared.open(instagramUrl)
} else {
//redirect to safari because the user doesn't have Instagram
UIApplication.shared.open(URL(string: "http://instagram.com/")!)
}
In SecondApp
Go to the plist file of SecondApp and you need to add a URL Schemes with a string iOSDevTips(of course you can write another string.it's up to you).
2 . In FirstApp
Create a button with the below action:
- (void)buttonPressed:(UIButton *)button
{
NSString *customURL = @"iOSDevTips://";
if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:[NSURL URLWithString:customURL]])
{
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:customURL]];
}
else
{
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"URL error"
message:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"No custom URL defined for %@", customURL]
delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Ok"
otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show];
}
}
That's it. Now when you can click the button in the FirstApp it should open the SecondApp.
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