Launching an iphone app from custom URL in sms

Question

I have a problem with launching my app from an url in an sms.

When I open my Safari and type "myapp://" it opens my application, but somehow the iPhone sms parser can't recognize my url in the body of the message.

I tried:

myapp://something

myapp:something

<myapp://something>

and still the URL in sms message is not clickable.

I have configured the URL identifier and scheme (because it works through safari).

Answer 1

My solution (not a good one) would be to send the user to Safari with a original http:// address and redirect the user to my app-url. This only requires simple HTML-Knowledge (and a webhost).

http://myapp.info/?id=myuniqueidfortheuser

The downside with this is that you must go through Safari to open the app.

This is the only solution I can think of with these restrictions by Apple.
I really hope they can fix this in the future.

Best of luck to you and I hope you'll solve this problem.