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iOS 6: How do Smart App Banners work?

  • Specifically, how much work will it require on the part of app developers to make sure their app gets a banner on their respective website? Additionally, how will the tracking part work (where it picks up in the app where you left off on the website)?

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    WWDC 2012 Session 601 covers that: In HTML: <meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=123456789, app-argument=x-sfp:///visit/seal-rocks"> In App: - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application openURL:(NSURL *)url sourceApplication:(NSString *)sourceApplication annotation:(id)annotation; App-ID could be retrieved from http://itunes.apple.com/linkmaker/

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Christian Malpeli

Implementing the banners is extremely easy: just place one meta tag in your HTML and you're done. The tricky part could be when dealing with incoming users in the app (in case they have it installed). For more details, you can check this out: http://giacomoballi.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/implementing-apples-new-smart-app-banners/

Giacomo Balli

Implementing Smart App Banners by David Smith http://david-smith.org/blog/2012/09/20/implementing-smart-app-banners/

Mir Qamar

Its unknown at the moment because app banners are not supported in the initial ios6 seed.  My guess, it will be a <meta> tag in the page header containing the appId.

Greg Gerber

1) I don't think there is any change required in the app just to show the app banner. 2) Yes, you can deep link the context so that the app takes the user to where he left on the site. Here is another good write up : http://functionsource.com/post/smart-app-banners

Satyajeet Singh

I have a follow-up question: http://t.co/aLwxVRDMN2

Harald Felgner

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