You may recall us mentioning back a while that some clever sparks had come up with the idea of implementing inter-iPhone-application IPC by means of registering custom URL schemes. Although there’s still a number of rough edges, it has worked out fairly functional and more work’s been done around that area, to “allow iPhone apps to work similarly to Android’s Intents”. Whatever it is that those might be.
Here’s a screencast demonstrating URL IPC in a diceshaker application.
The code for the above applications is at diceshaker and iphone-ipc-sample-diceshaker on GitHub.
There’s a page “ChooseYourOwniPhoneURLScheme” on cocoadev.com where you can see what schemes have been publicized for you to use.
Here’s a writeup from the people who integrated a credit card app and a point of sale app.
And here’s a thread on the developer forums for further discussion!
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