Direct web link to your app or developer account showing all your apps:
- http://itunes.com/apps/my-app-name
- http://itunes.com/apps/my-developer-name
- itms://itunes.com/apps/my-app-name (opens iTunes)
- itms://itunes.com/apps/my-developer-name (opens iTunes)
- itms-apps://itunes.com/apps/my-app-name (opens App Store)
- itms-apps://itunes.com/apps/my-developer-name (opens App Store)
Direct link to a country specific app store (say Germany in this exampe):
If your app name contains spaces replace them with dashes. Replace http with imts to avoid Safari redirects on iOS devices. The http links will send web users to a page which asks to open iTunes on their machines.
To link from Objective-C so that the app store app opens automatically:
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[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"itms://itunes.com/apps/myappname"]]; |
Alternatively you can use Apple’s Link Maker Tool: http://itunes.apple.com/linkmaker/ – this lets you create buttons like the one below as well as direct links to web pages that look like iTunes:
There’s also Apple’s handy Widget Builder for good looking handy badges:
http://widgets.itunes.apple.com/builder/
I’ve just found an Apple Technical Note which describes this process. Apparently the iTunes.com URL is being phased out and instead appstore.com will be used.
For example, to link to my company it would be
http://appstore.com/company (for example, http://appstore.com/pinkstone-pictures-ltd)
or to link directly to an app it would be
http://appstore.com/appname (for example, http://appstore.com/poirot-for-ios)
Here’s the article: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#qa/qa1633/_index.html
It appears that instead if itms:// we can also use itms-apps://
The latter opens apps directly in the App Store, whereas the former opens iTunes.first and then redirects.
Note for testing: neither option works on the simulator (because it doesn’t have either App Store nor iTunes). Test on a real device for pure satisfaction.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/433907/how-to-link-to-apps-on-the-app-store