As the title says, I have a web application that I run in Safari on my iPad that I would like to launch another app (native to iPad) in order to edit a PDF.
Is this possible?
Thanks!
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As the title says, I have a web application that I run in Safari on my iPad that I would like to launch another app (native to iPad) in order to edit a PDF.
Is this possible?
Thanks!
Where does the PDF live? If it is hosted online, accessible via a URL, I think you could make it work.
A web application can launch a native application if the native application has registered a custom URL scheme (via it’s info.plist). But it’s not directly possible for the web app to detect if the native app is installed.
Assuming the native app has a URL scheme registered, e.g. “myapp://com.mycompany.myapp” then the web app could launch it and pass the url to the pdf simply by navigating to a special url with the pdf url passed as a parameter:
You probably want to URL-encode the url to the pdf itself…