Button to open a mobile application?

[petrovic.teodor]

Hello guys,

I wonder if it’s possible to make a button open a certain mobile application when clicked (when viewing the page via browser). For example, when clicked, it opens the TikTok app or at least prompts a window where the user can choose an app to open. Wireframe of how my app looks:

I’ve tried finding a solution for this over the forum but didn’t succeed.

Best,
TP

[williamtisdale]

I just put this link in my browser and it prompted me to open the app.

postman://www.postman.com

So maybe replace that with tiktok. Also I am finding it only works for me if I have the app installed.

[petrovic.teodor]

Hey @williamtisdale - thanks for the reply.

So just to clarify, the button “record with TikTok app” should then link to which URL, considering your example?

I didn’t know it could be achieved that way. Also, yes, it would be a pre-requisite that the user already has the TikTok app installed.

Thank you

[williamtisdale]

I cannot get it to work on my mac because I do not have tiktok downloaded but just say if I did then by clicking a Link(which bubble has as an element) and it sent me to “tiktok://www.tiktok.com” then my browser would pop up an alert asking me if I wanted to open the application. you can replace the word tiktok with any app you may have on your computer or phone to see if it works. For me, I tested it with postman and discord and in both cases I was prompted to open the app.

This is the url: “tiktok://www.tiktok.com”

I am assuming that the name of the app followed by colon and two forward slashes then the website url does the trick.

[petrovic.teodor]

@williamtisdale
it works! I’ve just tried it. Thanks a lot Now another thing would be to figure out if it’s possible to directly open the camera on TikTok app. But for now, this is very good.

Thanks once again!

[williamtisdale]

Probably look here for the next task. It actually looks like you could just have them record it in your app and share it to tiktok form there.