Launching app within another app

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So I'm looking for the best way to open an app within another app on Xamarin forms when the app is install.. Currently I have an external link to the playstore (which loads up the app on play store) but, when the app is installed I'd like to link directly to this.. How would i go about doing this with Xamarin forms? Cheers

Here's how I went about fixing this issue :

Setting up app linking in Xamarin

This is possible but we need to change the code to the app we are linking to.

"App from" (in our case) changes :

To link to another app the change made to the main app is minimal: 1) Create a new URI. E.g. (URI AppLink = new Uri("http://appto/load");) 2) Set up the link with Device.OpenURI(AppLink);

"App to" (in our case) changes :

Android:

In main activity we need to add an intent filter, here is an example of what this looks like: [IntentFilter(new [] {Android.Content.Intent.ActionView }, DataScheme="appto", DataHost="load", Categories=new [] { Android.Content.Intent.CategoryDefault })]

The DataScheme and DataHost correspond to the uri link above.

iOS:

Within the info.plist file in the advanced tab we need to create a new "url type" I added an identifier of “com.appto.test” and URL scheme of “appto” (corresponds with uri link) After these changes are done, the app should link. Atleast with the example it worked.

Yeah basically.. Click a button linking to another app, which should directly open# — RobJakeDorsett, Nov 02 '15 at 16:50
Not entirely sure how you will do this cross platform, but the android way (easy to convert the java to c#) can be found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2780102/open-another-application-from-your-own-intent — Johan, Nov 02 '15 at 16:52
Cheers.. I supposeI can do this differently depending on the platform and use platform specific code — RobJakeDorsett, Nov 02 '15 at 16:57
RobJakeDorsett, can you please post your code if possible. I am also looking for the same thing. — Ashaar, May 06 '16 at 15:06
I can't post the code because it was client work - I'll explain how I did it, see edits — RobJakeDorsett, May 10 '16 at 15:05

Launching app within another app

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