Open social media links to app if installed else open browser iOS and Android Xamrin forms

Question

Webpage with social media links loading inside WebView. On tapping on social media link how to open respective app if installed else browser

<a href="https://twitter.com/subaru_usa?lang=en" target="_blank">Twitter</a>

Answer 1

Hello,

You could use this event Navigating in WebView to resolve your issue.

Sample:

   <WebView x:Name="webview" Navigating="webview_Navigating">  

Important: For using Navigating, you need to delete target="_blank" in your <a> lable.

Next, we need to make the app to respond to URLs on websites. In fact, we could use App-link to implement this function effectively.

On Android, we could use App-link to let Android raise a disambiguation dialog to ask a user what application to select the application.

On iOS, we could use Universal Links for launching the apps.

You could refer to the following documentation for more details:

1. Handling Android App Links.
2. Support Universal Links.
3. Enable apps for websites using app URI handlers.

Best Regards,

Alec Liu.

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