How can I determine if the user of an iOS device has a specific application installed? If I know the name of the application can I use canOpenURL somehow?
How can I determine if the user of an iOS device has a specific
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How can I determine if the user of an iOS device has a specific application installed? If I know the name of the application can I use canOpenURL somehow?
If the application supports a custom url scheme you can check
UIApplication-canOpenURL:. That will tell you only that an application able to open that url scheme is available, not necessarily which application that is. There’s no publicly available mechanism to inspect what other apps a user has installed on their device.If you control both apps you might also use a shared keychain or pasteboard to communicate between them in more detail.