I have a button in WIX, it downloads a vcard and I want that it open the contacts app.
With Safari it's works fine, with Android no, it downloads the file but don't open the contacts app.
Any ideas please?
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I am developing a web application which is optimize for google chrome on android.
for users who open my app with another browser,
is there a deep link to open google chrome from my website?
for example:
the following link launches the playstore application at the url indicated in the link variable
https://play.app.goo.gl/?link=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.katana&ddl=1&pcampaignid=web_ddl_1
We have some href's linking to .ics files and google calendar etc. Everything works perfectly on the web and iOS devices. However, when linking to "Add to calendar" from Android 6.0+ within chrome, it auto opens the Google Calendar, which is expected, but then it just says "Event not found".
Our links are setup the same way as suggested answer in:
Link to add to google calendar
Doing some research there looks to be some issues with Android 6.0 and google calendar, but I'm wondering if on an Android 6.0+ device if anyone has found a workaround solution to get "Add to calendar" href link to add an event to the native google calendar app?
For anyone else searching for a solution I ended up using: http://addtocalendar.com/
It's a free service and seems to use the browser interface for adding Calendar events on Android.
The reason the addtocalendar library works is simply because it uses a different link structure that doesn't prompt mobile users to open in app: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?action=TEMPLATE&.... You can skip using that library and just swap in this base link structure.
There's a warning that pops up on the google calendar page this links to that things won't be rendered perfectly on mobile because it's the desktop view, but it works.
Using an Android phone, when i click on a pdf link (i.e. example.com/abc.pdf), Chrome downloads it. I want Chrome to directly open it with the default pdf viewer of the user. So i think i need to use:
https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/intents
I do not want to force user to open it with a specific app (i.e. adobe reader) so i do not know the package name.
Any help?
If it is not possible, how to open it with adobe reader?
many hours of trying...and at last...
open pdf
Is there a way to open any app installed on Iphone/Ipad? is there a way to open that app from HTML run in Safari.
Please help me. Thank you very much!
Yes, but only if you know the apps URL scheme.
Like for example, Facebook App registers the app URL fb:// so if you create a herf you can open the Facebook app:
Launch Facebook app
Yes you can, If you know the URL scheme of that app.
For eg. URL scheme of whatsapp is whatsapp:// so you can open whatsapp from safari by typing whatsapp:// in your browser.
You can also set URL scheme to your app so that any one can open your app from browser by entering URL.
Check this great tutorial If you want to create a custom URL scheme for your app.
I have a HTML 5 app which works with offline storage. It only needs to work in Chrome at the moment. I want the user to be able to access the app both online and offline. At the moment I am asking the user to bookmark the page to come back to it when offline.
I would like to have a link: "Click here to create a desktop shortcut". Does anybody know if this is possible?
Thanks in advance.
I encourage you to get your app in the Chrome Web Store and it will be installed to the users Chrome. Any app that is created to work offline will work offline regardless of it having a desktop icon or not.
If the user is on Windows they can also create an application shortcut that will be placed on to the desktop.