Newbie Questions: How to Open Third Party Apps

CoolBeans · June 25, 2020, 2:57am

Hi All, Sorry to bother but how would I open a third party app for android and for ios? In my app, I need a button where once tapped, it opens Instagram. Apologies if this was answered already.

Sasu_Makinen · June 25, 2020, 7:03am

You can open it by opening an url starting with the apps’ urischeme as protocol.

in instagrams case by quick googling I found this

so if you open url instagram://app it would open instagram on your phone.

CoolBeans · June 25, 2020, 2:01pm

Worked liked a charm!! Thank you!

In my case I needed to open a specific user so I used the following

CoolBeans · June 25, 2020, 2:10pm

@Sasu_Makinen How can I go about checking to see if Instagram(or any other app) is or is not installed?

Tomi_Laakso · June 25, 2020, 2:18pm

You can use “Can open URL?” flow function to check that.

CoolBeans · June 25, 2020, 3:07pm

Yes!! that worked. Thank you. I have to remember to check the component market for additional features.