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Does the iOS Box app respond to a custom URL scheme?

I'd love to be able to launch the native Box iOS app directly from my own native iOS app. For example, Dropbox uses db-api-1://, Facebook uses fb://, Square uses square://, etc.

Does Box for iOS use a similar URL scheme? If so, is there documentation outlining what parameters it can parse? If not, is there another way of launching it from my app?

Thanks!

Solution

  • I've inspected the Info.plist of the app:

    <key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
<array>
    <dict>
        <key>CFBundleURLName</key>
        <string>com.box.boxapp</string>
        <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
        <array>
            <string>box</string>
            <string>box-login</string>
        </array>
    </dict>
    <dict>
        <key>CFBundleURLName</key>
        <string>com.box.docinteraction.upload</string>
        <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
        <array>
            <string>box-upload-all</string>
            <string>box-upload-all-direct</string>
        </array>
    </dict>
</array>

    So there are 4 url schemes in total: box, box-login, box-upload-all and box-upload-all-direct. But its hard to use them if you don't have any documentation...