Cabel SasserIf you’re reading this on iOS, it’s really interesting to me that clicking this link will slide open an Apple One signup UI — right on top of your Mastodon client!
Now That’s OS Integration™
Joe Finney@cabel That is pretty neat! How do you think Apple implemented that? AppClip?
@TheJoeFin @cabel Great question, especially since the browser panel doesn’t even open first. It must be caught at a pretty low level? I’ll just float this to @stroughtonsmith 😂
Steve Troughton-Smith@cabel @TheJoeFin simple enough! It looks like it opens an appstore:// URL scheme (or uses deep links for that domain), which iOS must handle transparently
Adam Demasi@stroughtonsmith @cabel @TheJoeFin Specifically the magic url is: ams-ui://one.apple.com/us/?itcCt=pt%3D118354236%26ct%3DWebsite%26cid%3D1237825358
There’s a chunk of code in iOS/macOS’s URL handling logic with a lot of if-else-if-else-if blocks for magic urls with specific handling. Others include apps.apple.com, itunes.apple.com, apple.news, etc. (Something tells me Apple Media Services didn’t get the memo about Universal Links? 🙃)
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