Check If A Url Scheme Is Registered On Ios Or Android In Cordova

I want to check if a particular app is installed and if it is installed, invoke it. AFAIK, the way to do it is to check if the custom url scheme of the app is registered and use th

Solution 1:

Cordova does not ship with this feature. There is a plugin which implements it for iOS, though.

• https://github.com/philbot5000/CanOpen

I did not find anything for Android yet, but I do not think this would be hard to do in native Android Code. Even if you are not proficient with Objective-C or Java and never intend to write fully native apps, you should learn some basics if you want to build apps with Cordova.

Small and simple plugins are really easy to do. Read the docs and have a look at the code of some simple plugins to see how it is done. For example the source code of the one above or of the one below is really simple and straightforward to understand:

• https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/LaunchMyApp-PhoneGap-Plugin