iOS Companion App URL - Garmin store

So when putting an app in the store there is a place to enter 'iOS Companion App URL '. I get this error

iOS Companion App URL is invalid.

In my case it is a related app, but does not communicate directly with the garmin device.

Regardless this companion is key to the usage and setting up.

I was able to enter an android companion but cannot figure out what is needed for ios so for now i have to leave it blank.

Any tips on what the validation in the garmin store is needing for an acceptable url?

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OttawaDeveloper over 5 years ago

I will post this in case others have the same issue. It would have been good if the validation done by the garmin store was explained so i could have done this more easily.

After a lot of fiddling it seems that i could enter a link to the app. The link that worked started as follows.

https://itunes.apple.com/...

Apparently there are many links that get to the app with different URL, but the only one that was acceptable to the garmin store was like this. So not a full or good explanation but perhaps this post will save someone else some time.

Some of the ones that did not work had this form

https://apps.apple.com/...

http://itunes.com/apps/...

Nikeow over 5 years ago in reply to OttawaDeveloper

curious - the companion app you're building is for a datafield or a device app for the Garmin?

OttawaDeveloper over 5 years ago in reply to Nikeow

app, but as i mentioned initially they do not communicate directly

li2niu over 3 years ago

Same issue.

flowstate over 3 years ago in reply to li2niu

So the funny thing is that the answer with 3 votes has links in it, but they're obviously useless because the original URLs have been mangled (e.g. [itunes.apple.com/...]). That's because this is an old post from when the forums were on a different platform, and data was lost during the changeover to the current platform. Since the URL of the post itself has changed, there's no way for us to use archive.org to get the original post back, either.

This happened to all old posts from the old forum platform. Attachments like images and videos were lost too.

To top if off, the current platform is terrible. (Bad for mobile, bad for scrolling through long threads, and bad in general.) Forums are def not very popular these days, but at least companies and sites that still have them use something modern like NodeBB or Discourse, which work well on mobile and have a way to quickly jump to any post in a long thread.