I am looking for a way to call other installed applications from within my app. For example: Can a user open his Skype app from my app?
Is there a way to do this?
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I am looking for a way to call other installed applications from within my app. For example: Can a user open his Skype app from my app?
Is there a way to do this?
Take a look at
-openURL:and-canOpenURL:.The application in question must register
CFBundleURLTypesfor it to respond to the aforementioned open method. In the case of Skype, for example, the URL protocol isskype:.