I am working on a React project. The same web app has its Android and IOS apps as well.
When I copy a web app's link to android users' mobile phone, It asked to open through web or app like this.
But I try to open the same thing with the IOS device. It directly opens the link in the web browser.
I am new to this project and I have no access to any documentation for the project. How can I add android behaviour to the IOS? Is this can be done in the React web app itself?
I think this will help with support universal links:
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/General/Conceptual/AppSearch/UniversalLinks.html
In addition, there is a very detailed explanation here in terms of react native. I wanted to direct you in case you might not have come across.
https://rossbulat.medium.com/deep-linking-in-react-native-with-universal-links-and-url-schemes-7bc116e8ea8b
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I have a mobile website, users user smart phone browser to access my site.
Now some users would like to have an Android App.
So is there any easy and fast way to create an Android App which will access the existing mobile website so that I can have an Android App without developing Android app?
You would have to create a "wrapper" Android App. That is a native Android App with a Main Activity that contains a WebView with JavaScript enabled and some sort of navigation controls either on the mobile website or the native app (buttons or menu) but you could bump into problems such as:
Users being stuck in a particular page with no way to navigating back or forward.
Google is now more picky with the apps and they have policies to reject or ban apps that are only wrappers or point to external websites (kind of what Apple did for iOS)
Any case, you would have to create a mobile layout for your website or a make it responsive (special CSS and JS UI/UX that fits better on mobile devices).
Another alternative is to make your website compatible with PROGRESSIVE WEB APPS (https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/) which is basically a Web app with some special elements that allow it to receive push notifications, put a shortcut or app icon on the device's home screen, etc.
Good luck! Hope this helped!
You can use android WebView. For more details you go through the link Android Webview
the only way to do that, using WebView on your apps or you need to create manually
You can put your code into Cordova and convert it into other IDE like android studio or eclipse .
reference:
Import Cordova project in Android Studio
I have customers wanting my website in app form, but the website is responsive. I've been looking for an open source project or code to just run the website in an app or open up their default browser to direct them to it. They just want the button.
Is there an open source project to make it easy to develop that code for iOS, Android, etc.
Are there any issues with running a website natively? Aka, same as cross-browser issues or..?
Thanks!
There is Apache-Cordova at this link. It is multi-platform and free/opensource.
In Android, you can use WebView.
Android WebView is a system component powered by Chrome that allows Android apps to display web content.
For more information about Android WebView, please visit the documentation
I'm looking for the easiest solution to the following scenario:
I've developed a web app.
I need to send an sms with link+parameters for a unique user's registration.
BUT I want the link to direct to a native app installation that will install an app icon on home screen, and all this native app has to do is open the link to the web app.
By that I can avoid the Awkward solution of using bookmarks in android.
I know nothing about mobile app programming, so by easiest I mean: Either very basic tutorial, or a working native app that I can just change the URL and resubmit it as a new Native app.
or Any other easy suggestion
Short version:
Are there any web sites people have developed that harness PhoneGap functionality that are available on the web?
Long version:
PhoneGap allows developers to package a web site inside a native app. It also allows developers to have a PhoneGap webview embedded as part of their application. They can then point this PhoneGap integrated webview at any url, and use it like a browser.
I cannot develop web sites myself so I want to know if there are any web sites on the internet that use PhoneGap features.
Thanks
Not wrong. In order to access the Phonegap API the Phonegap App must be installed on the device. The content inside the App can point to a website, that's correct. But that does not change the fact that you need to download and install the App first.
I have two Phonegap Apps in the Apple App Store so I know what I am speaking of.
PhoneGap has a section on their website dedicated to mobile apps that were built using it:
http://phonegap.com/apps
I have a fully-working web app that is accessible using Android's browser.
The annoying part is the url bar uses a lot of the screen. Is there a way to make this web app a native Android app? I've read that webview can be used to embed a web site within the Android App.
Unfortunately, I only know web programming languages and have no Java experience. Will I still be able to do this on my own?
You certainly will need some learning in java, you can start with reading the following :
Webview documentation
A very detailled tutorial (quite hard if you haven't any java basics)
A basic tutorial on webview usage.
Have you looked at phonegap. It comes with a standalone app with a WebView embedded in it and with native android functionality support. You just need to provide your html/javascript app to it and you're done.
You can use a web app called MIT App Inventor
and get it done in less than 10 minutes, it's very easy, intuitive and requires no programming skills at all.
all you need to do is create a new project,
drag and drop a WebViewer component, on the right set the home url,
and your done! just connect to an android phone via USB to install the app
and you can even download the .apk to your computer, sign it and publish it on Google Play