Launch iPhone app from link in email

Question

Hi,

I've been trying out the URL schemes in the iPhone SDK and I have got my application to launch using a custom URL scheme like "myap://Dosomething" but that is not really practical for what I want. Is it possible to register a scheme somehow that would allow links in emails like "http://www.mydomain.com/" to launch my application, like app store links and youtube links do?

Answer 1

To do that you would have to register and host that domain and set it up to redirect to the URL scheme. How to set up the redirect depends on what web server you're running. Why do you think myapp:// is impractical?