Alright, last time we looked at UWP, and now we will look at iOS. It is a pretty similar effort to UWP. All we need to do is declare the protocol handling and then handle the URL.

Declaring the Protocol

First we have to edit the info.plist file in the iOS project. This file needs to be modified by hand and is just a simple XML file. The plist element is the root element and contains a “dict” object. Each element of the dict object is a setting for the app and it is contained in pairs. For example:

<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>UIDeviceFamily</key>
    <array>
        <integer>1</integer>
        <integer>2</integer>
    </array>

    ... other settings
</dict>
</plist>

At the end of the file, we can add our protocol declaration. It will look like this:

<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    ... other settings

    <key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>CFBundleURLName</key>
            <string>same.asyour.bundle.identifier</string>
            <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
            <array>
                <string>bbsw-fm</string>
            </array>
        </dict>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

Handling the URL Link

This is almost exactly like how we did it in the UWP platform project. In the AppDelegate class, we need to override the OpenUrl method and delegate back to the portable Application object.

public partial class AppDelegate : global:Xamarin.Forms.Platform.iOS.FormsApplicationDelegate
{

    public override bool OpenUrl(UIApplication app, NSUrl url, NSDictionary options)
    {
        DeepLink.App thisApp = (DeepLink.App) Prism.Unity.PrismApplication.Current;
        thisApp.UwpIOSOnAppLinkRequestReceived(new Uri(url.ToString()));
        return true;
    }
}

All that is happening above is that when the app is activated because of the protocol that it has registered, it will look at the URL and extract the response code that was returned by Forge. It will then use that response code in a REST API call to get the authorization token and refresh token. If that is successful, we perform a navigation to the next page in our app. Obviously the code isn’t complete as it doesn’t handle any kinds of errors. For the details on how to get the authorization and refresh tokens see the previous post.

Next up and finally will be the Android implementation.