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Hello all.
I am facing the following situation: I have built an app which is for a certain user group and not for just anyone the internet. So my idea was to provide some sort App installation link only to people who are already logged in into that specific community (php web pages). I started with something like http://www.mydomain.com/mySubfolder/iPhone/MainPage.html.
But after all it is just a link. So it can be copied or/and forwarded via e-mail or just published on the internet. So it is no longer limited to a certain user group.I wonder if there is a way to send some sort of app-installation-link to an iPhone that just creates the link/icon on the iPhone’s homescreen (like “Add to Homescreen in Safari) in that moment after the user is logged in and pressed some sort of installation link. Maybe some javascript code could do that.
Would such thing be possible? I googled around a while but could only find similar topics which doesn’t fit my expectations, outdated links nor non-working samples. I would be absolutely sufficient if this someone has a iPhone-only-solution for this.
Thx, JohnJake2
I dont think you can auto install onto a phones home screen, that would be bad for the end users, because almost every site you went to would try to do it.
Hi CinyPlanet.
Yes, you are right. I was thinking of the same problem in the first second. But as links containing something like tel:XXX would lead so some request dialog coming from iOS I would expect that in such a case, there will be also a dialog box coming up asking the user for allowing to create a short cut / app icon.
So I doubt that almost any kind of web page would come up with such requests, since you woud then avoid these websites….But anyway. You are maybe right. But I was hoping for some solution or ideas.
Has none of you ever had the probem to provide a web App only to a certain group of people??
@CinyPlanet: Thx for your feedback.
JohnJake2
Mobione does include a hint popup that tells the user they can install on the home screen…
You could use a really basic javascript login on the main page…
Hi CinyPlanet.
Mobione does include a hint popup that tells the user they can install on the home screen…
Yes, that’s right. But I mean that the OS itself may provide an API call or something to do so and that would mean that the popup or request dialog is coming from iOS itself. But anway, do you have a little example for your mentioned basic login script? I currently have no idea since a hardcoded password something similar would be part of the code and therefore not really a protection…
Thx,
JohnJake2I havent heard of any api that would do that.
You could use php for a login which would provide basic protection:
http://www.genuitec.com/support-genuitec/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4969
