launch safari from iphone app

Question

This might be a rather obvious question, but can you launch the Safari browser from an iphone app?

all the best.

Answer 1

Have you tried the openURL function?

Answer 2

UIApplication has a method called openURL:

example:

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.stackoverflow.com"];

if (![[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url])
  NSLog(@"%@%@",@"Failed to open url:",[url description]);

Answer 3

should be the following :

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.stackoverflow.com"];

if (![[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url])

NSLog(@"%@%@",@"Failed to open url:",[url description]);