Use Blynk to Open Separate App?

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Hello!

Love Blynk and have been using it for the past 6 months for development of a new product. My question is this… is it possible to add a button widget to Blynk (or any other widget) that would open up another app running on the same phone/device? For example, we’d like to show an early demo of our product to a potential customer and would want to press a button widget that opens a video streaming app. The app is currently running on an iOS device.

Thanks!

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Technically, on iOS it depends on whether the app you want to open provides URL schemes for its communication.

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Thanks for the guidance. I’ll reach out to the app developer.

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I do have a URL for an external site where video is streamed. Would that be more feasible?

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Sounds like the video widget used on Blynk’s Android version.

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This problem came up again whereas I am not sure the video widget will solve. I have the URL scheme for a an app and would like a button widget within Blynk to open the other app. How does one do this? Thanks

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Such customization is pissible only for subscribers to our business plans: http://www.blynk.io/plans/

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Thanks Eugene; this is clear now. This was for a demo, but we are in conversations regarding a business plan for production. Very excited.