![]() We're now in beta! The core is there, albeit our list of TODOs remains long - the devil is in the details, as they say. Finally, the framework is non-intrusive - if there's no connection and the default app hasn't been selected yet, and if Choosy can't download data or no 3rd-party apps are installed yet, it just opens the default iOS app, thus acting as if it wasn't there in the first place. If a new app of the same type is installed, or the app marked as default is deleted, Choosy presents app choices to the user again the next time a link related to that app type is activated. Users can set an app as default after all, their Twitter client preference is not likely to change from one Twitter link to the next. ![]() Choosy maps those parameters to the parameters supported by each app and builds app-specific URLs.Ĭhoosy does cache the data it downloads, so the traffic footprint is minimal. Developers code to an app-agnostic interface where they just specify the type of app they are linking to/trying to interact with, and pass in a list of parameters. (Oh the things we could do if we had two API methods!) We store a list of URL schemes and their building blocks for each app on a server (in a GitHub repository right now), categorizing apps by type. You can still use registerUIElement method shown above, but you can also call Choosy from your own event handlers: ] Customizable?Īll of this relies on UIApplication's canOpenURL method. In your controller's viewDidLoad or appDelegate's applicationDidLoad: ] In viewDidLoad: [Choosy registerUIElement:self.myButton forAction:[ChoosyActionContext it! Choosy will hook up a tap and long press gesture recognizers to that button and display the app selection UI as needed. We can't completely solve iOS' current lack of a default app selection mechanism, but all of us together can solve some of it. ![]() We have a dream that iOS users can traverse the ecosystem using just the apps they love, be they built-in apps or not. It's a flawed user experience, a blemish in the otherwise pretty and elegant iOS. While many of us at Substantial love iOS, we have a commonly-occurring annoyance: we tap a link hoping that it opens our favorite client app (or at least lets us select one) only to be disappointed.
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