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Open app on phone by app link from watch

Former Member
Former Member over 8 years ago
By communications class's openWebPage method it is possible to direct the user to a specific web page on the phone.

Is it possible to open an app on the phone in this or similar way by using app links? It would be a very cool feature.

Like open app on IOS by calling this:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"appscheme://"]];

I don't know how to use it on Android, but there must be a similar way.

Thank you very much!
  • over 8 years ago
    Hello,

    We currently have the ability to launch a watch app from the phone, but we do not have a remote launch option going the other direction.

    Thanks,
    -Coleman
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 8 years ago
    Is it possible to open an app on the phone in this or similar way by using app links? It would be a very cool feature.

    Check this post. You can define BroadcastReceiver with mentioned intent filter to process watch data packets, although this is not an "official" way of doing things, it still works, at least at present time with actual version of GCM.
  • over 7 years ago
    Hello,

    We currently have the ability to launch a watch app from the phone, but we do not have a remote launch option going the other direction.

    Thanks,
    -Coleman


    Could we request this to be added? From what I have read it should be simple / straight forward.
    Instead of passing a "https://" link, it should just relay the custom url scheme of an app to Connect and then Connect can just rely on iOS to launch the registered app for the custom url scheme. Not much extra work in the SDK at all, and for Connect just perhaps some additional logic to let iOS handle the custom url scheme.

    This will open the door to a whole bunch of cool functionality!

    so to open Twitter on the phone you can call
    openWebPage("twitter://", null, options);
  • over 7 years ago
    This is something we have a plan to design at some point in the future. It's not a certainty, and I don't have a time line, but definitely a feature we intend to investigate.