My Facebook Instant app does not have a play button, so it's not possible to launch the app via sharing.
Could someone outline what I need to do to get this button to appear please?
I've set up everything (including an app page) in the dashboard. I'm assuming it has something to do with the "fbapp-config.json" file, but sample app doesn't seem to have the most common use case.
I assume don't need a self-hosted bot just to launch my app?
As discussed elsewhere (as I am unable to comment on Stack Overflow) I clarified that this is the Messenger share from the app details page. This looks like a bug on the Facebook side, as this reproduces for me.
For context, I am an engineer working on the Facebook Instant Games team. We will look into fixing this and update here when it is fixed.
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I have a link in my app that points to an app protocol of type myProtocol://". Until a few days ago this was working completely fine, whenever you clicked on the link, the native app would open.
However, iOS9.2 seems to have broken this. Now what happens is when the links is clicked, I get a prompt to open the native app which disappears after roughly 1 second, not even close to giving the user enough time to access. Shortly afterwards I get prompted to go to the App Store to the app's page.
Any idea why this is happening and what changes in iOS9.2 that is causing this would be helpful.
It seems that with iOS9.2, Apple is making a move towards Universal Links and traditional deeplinking is not supported anymore. While I was not able to find any information published direct on iOS9.2 release notes, following links indicate the same:
https://blog.branch.io/ios-9.2-redirection-update-uri-scheme-and-universal-links
https://www.adjust.com/overview/features/2015/12/11/ios-9-2-deeplinking/
Basically, I have this chatting website.
I want it to open up the web app inside of a popup, and I would also like for it to create a notification when I have unread messages.
I need to know if I can make it so it opens like it's in a website, or if I need to completely rewrite the coding.
You can in principle try to embed an iframe in the popup to show the webapp, but a popup page is completely destroyed when you close it, so it won't stay connected that way.
You would probably need another way.
It does not seem like Hall has any public API that you can use.
So probably your only option is to use a content script to interact with Hall opened in a tab. If you're adventurous, you could try to embed an iframe in your background page and interact with it there, but Hall may disallow framing.
All that said, I'm not so sure Hall will appreciate creating alternative software to interact with it.
So using the Google Chrome Top Sites api has values for the url and the title, but when you load the default google chrome page it also has an image of those sites, is there any way to get that sort of image for an extension? If not how does google get that image and how can you get an image of the the user's top viewed website?
Since that it isn't possible to get a screenshot of a page without loading it inside a tab, Chrome is simply getting those screenshots while you're browsing your favourite sites. You can tell this easily because sometimes sites and images do not coincide (e.g. sometimes my facebook.com top site has the image of my profile page, but links to the home).
Then, if you want your screenshots of the Top Sites, you'll have to start without screenshots, and create them while the user browses the web by using the chrome.tabs API to check when a tab loads one of the Top Sites (listening to the event onUpdated), and get a screenshot of that tab using captureVisibleTab.
NOTES: make sure that you've requested the permission for "<all_urls>" in your manifest, which is required for captureVisibleTab to work. Additionally, you may find this question and its answer helpful.
It's unfortunately not possible*. Chrome stores those thumbnails internally in URIs not accessible from an extension.
There is an existing feature request: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=11854
If you look at the comments, one of the main use cases is to access site thumbnails to replicate the New Tab page.
Do star the feature request above to raise its priority if you want this functionality implemented.
* By that I mean that it's not possilbe to access Chrome's own internal store of thumbnails.
Furthermore, as Marco suggested the way to replicate that would be tab capture, but you can't do it "in the background" for privacy reasons - a user must make an explicit gesture (e.g. click the extension's button, press a shortcut, etc.) to perform capture.
Marco's answer is valid now, captureVisibleTab should be accessible upon events. But yes, as of now Chrome forces you to have very broad permissions and maintaining your own thumbnail store.
Formerly it was possible in iOS to use the hook instagram://camera?caption=YourCaptionHere (from Mobile Safari, or elsewhere) to have the Instagram app open in camera mode with a pre-filled caption. However, that no longer seems to be the case as my previously working URL (hook) no longer populates a caption (though it does still open Instagram in camera mode).
I'm having trouble finding any current information on this, though the caption query string variable seems to have never been documented in the first place.
Does anyone know if this feature is still available under a different query string variable?
To be more clear, I have a link on a web page that attempts to open Instagram in camera mode with a caption. I have a JavaScript click event that checks after 500ms to see if the page is still open, then alerts the user to download the app if the link didn't work:
Open Instagram
Instagram provides documentation on iOS hooks. That documentation does not make any mention of a caption parameter, except sharing a photo via Obj-C (in which they call it annotation). Given the different naming, you could try instagram://camera?annotation=YourCaptionHere and it might even work, but this doesn't seem to be an officially-supported use case.
Further, to support your second paragraph, searching through the history of the docs on the wayback machine doesn't turn up any mention that caption was ever a supported argument... like you said. Interestingly, one of their co-founders claimed this was available 2 years ago... I guess they never made it official, then removed it?
I want to develop an application like in netflix in the google tv. Problem is that I don't how to create the icon where user clicks and website opens same as netflix
Can anybody familiar with this issue.
Thanks
You mean you want to create a wrapper app so that it appears in the launcher? Have a look at this article by Motorola http://community.developer.motorola.com/t5/MOTODEV-For-Enterprise/Hybrid-Web-Android-Apps-Applying-an-Android-Wrapper-to-an/ba-p/21370. You'll also need a Google Play account to submit the app through and Eclipse to build the app in AND you'll need to remember the to set the android.hardware.touchscreen feature requirement false in the Manifest. http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-feature-element.html
I suggest you pay someone to do it for you.