TL,DR: What is actually the difference(s) between Universal Link and the URL Schemes? Is it that a Universal Link is only for hyperlinks in websites, and the Mail or Messages apps? A Universal Link is an Apple Specific, OS-based URL that ties a website URL to an app-specific URI Scheme & Route. It is not … Read more
If two apps register the same custom URL scheme, it is undefined which app will actually be launched. One will be launched but there is no way to know. Here’s a real kicker. If you have two apps on your device with the same URL scheme, and you delete the one that actually gets launched, … Read more
Well, this is 2016 and now you can have a column for protocols in your chrome devtools. All you have to do is: 1) open your networks tab in devtools and right click on any of column headers to open the “select columns” popup 2) select protocol (or any other desired column) for it to … Read more
Not seamlessly. But there is a way similar to checking if a pop-up was blocked or not. When you try a URL scheme which is not supported, Safari will warn the user that it doesn’t know what to do with it and stay on the same page. So if you gave your app-call some time … Read more
If your mobile site is (generally) used by iOS devices, you can use : <a href=”https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11598925/skype:YourSkypeName?call”>Call me on Skype</a> Apple iOS devices automatically recognizes intents in link with Skype and FaceTime.
The way you can do this for “http://” URLs (and what I think Apple and Spotify do) this is to: Register a custom URL scheme like the other answers have shown. Set up your HTTP URL to point to a real webpage. Put a script on that page to redirect to your custom URL if … Read more
The official standard for providing a telephone number as a URI is here: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3966.txt It basically says use tel: as the prefix, and start the number with +[international dialling code] before the number itself. You can put non-numeric characters as separators (e.g. -) but they must be ignored. So a London (UK) number might be: … Read more
AS @Nix Wang’s ANSWER THIS IS NOT WORK IN IOS 10 WARNING: This method will not work for devices running iOS 5.1 and greater – See Hlung’s comment below. It’s possible that the path component has a different name than the actual section, but it’s also possible that you can’t currently access that section straight … Read more
Yes, the tel, fax and modem URL Schemes are discussed in https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2806 2.3 “fax” URL scheme The URL syntax is formally described as follows (the definition reuses nonterminals from the above definition). For the basis of this syntax, see [RFC2303] and [RFC2304]. fax-url = fax-scheme “:” fax-subscriber fax-scheme = “fax” fax-subscriber = fax-global-phone / fax-local-phone … Read more
Follow these three steps: Create a key called FacebookAppID with a string value, and add the app ID there. Create a key called FacebookDisplayName with a string value, and add the Display Name you configured in the App Dashboard. Create an array key called URL types with a single array sub-item called URL Schemes. Give … Read more