Question

I’m using Marmalade to develop iOS applications via VisualStudio and a PC. The integration of a social feature like HeyZap needs its initialization by the use of:

loadHeyzap("YOUR_APP_ID_HERE","YOUR_APP_URL_HERE", true);

App_ID is the ID as defined in the itunes app page (I got it).

App_URL “should also similarly be replaced with your URL scheme for the iPhone” [from the HeyZap integration doc].

Well, the HeyZap help desk weren’t useful to obtain this string via the use of VisualStudio+PC (in fact, they told me “use XCode+Mac instead…”).
Since this is a simple string, I suppose I could obtain it starting from known parameters of my app. I suppose to find inside it something like [app_name]&=other-chars-….

Is there a way to build this string without the use of XCode, just starting from info I already have and putting here and there some special chars?
In other words, is there a standard way to automate the build of this string without the neeed to do it via XCode? I wonder to prepare a function in which I would pass my app parameters and I got the URL Scheme string as a result.

Cheers,

Zapp

Answer 1

URL scheme is most probably the url of your app in App Store. You can obtain it from iTunesConnect. Go to your application and copy the url of View in App Store link. That’s the string you wanted 😉

Let me know if it doesn’t work.

Edit:
Well App url worked for me, dunno why its not working for you. If you want to edit the URL scheme, you can do it without using XCode too. You need to include Info.plist file in the mkb settings. You can edit or check the current URL scheme being used by marmalade there. The default plist file is in the s3e folder. Don’t know the exact location.