Web and WebWorks Development

[Philipk]

Normal links to apps in app world don't work. 

I also tried the following http://stackoverflow.com/a/5390526/773263

Gives me an error as well.

[interfaSys]

Do you have a test case?

What sort of errors do you see?

[Philipk]

Example code:

<a href="http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/clientlaunch/20393793">test</a>

When I do that a page from App World loads in the webview pop up that says 'internal server error.

Also tried using the link

http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/18560198/

When I do this I just get a white screen in the webview popup.

[mimendoza]

Are you displaying the link from a webpage? Or from within another app? Do you want to launch the browser to open the page or open the BlackBerry World app and direct the user to the specified app listing on BB World?

[Philipk]

Ideally I would like to have my own list of apps I made pop up in the webview, from within my app. This way I can update a list of other apps for all of my apps at once without having to submit an update to BlackBerry World.

When the user clicks on one of the links I want it to open up in the BlackBerry World app so they can download it.

That being said I have tried linking directly within the app and from the webview pop-up within my app and both times had the same result.

[mimendoza]

In that case, it seems like you want to invoke the BlackBerry World app.

See our WebWorks invoke sample on github here, our WebWorks invocation documentation here, and our BlackBerry World invocation attributes here.

Here is a snippet of how to invoke the wifi settings within the main settings app:

function invokeWiFiSettings() {

    blackberry.invoke.invoke({

        target: "sys.settings.target",

        uri: "settings://wifi"

    }, onSuccess, onError);

}

You also want to make sure you add the blackberry.invoke feature id in your config file and specify the domain in the webview that will invoke BlackBerry World. e.g:

<access uri="http://www.somedomain.com" subdomains="true">

    <feature id="blackberry.invoke" required="true" version="1.0.0"/>

</access>

[Philipk]

Thanks that works great from within the app directly.

Is there anyway I could get the appworld:// links to work from the child web view?

EDIT: Sorry didnt' try adding the 

<access uri="http://www.somedomain.com" subdomains="true">

    <feature id="blackberry.invoke" required="true" version="1.0.0"/>

</access>

part. Will try that now

[mimendoza]

The information that I wrote above should also work from within the child browser, as long as you allow the domain to access that feature (using the <access uri> code above)

[Philipk]

Still having problems

My config.XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<widget xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets"
xmlns:rim="http://www.blackberry.com/ns/widgets"
id="CityscapeBG"
version="0.0.0.4">
<name>Cityscape BG</name>
<icon src="iconL.png"/>
<description>Cityscape Wallpaper</description>
<author href="http://philipk.ca">PhilipK</author>
<content src="index.html" />
<rim:splash src="splash.jpg" />
<feature id="blackberry.app.orientation">
<param name="mode" value="portrait" />
</feature>

<access uri="http://philipk.ca" subdomains="true">
<feature id="blackberry.invoke" required="true" version="1.0.0"/>
</access>

<feature id="blackberry.invoke" />
<feature id="blackberry.invoke.card" />
<feature id="blackberry.ui.toast" />
<feature id="blackberry.system" />

</widget>


The HTML from the child browser

<a href="appworld://content/20393793"><li>test</li></a>

[mimendoza]

You'll need to call a method when the user clicks that link since you also have to specify the target app to invoke.

For example:

function invokeWiFiSettings() {

    blackberry.invoke.invoke({

        target: "sys.settings.target",

        uri: "settings://wifi"

    }, onSuccess, onError);

}

Take a look at our invoke sample on github again, and see how the other apps are invoked.