Layar: Opening App Store from Layar HTML Widget in JavaScript or JQuery

Question

I'm unsing a HTML widget in Layar which has to control all the interaction. So no Layar buttons. I trying to use a simple JavaScript / JQuery function to open a target app in the App Store:

$('.btn-download').click(function(){
    window.location.href = "itms://itunes.com/apps/someApp";
});

I do something simular opening a mail window with mailto: which works fine. Somehow this will do nothing. B.t.w. It only has to work on iOS.

Answer 1

Try using this:

setTimeout(function() {
  window.location = "http://itunes.com/apps/someApp";
}, 25);

window.location = "custom-uri://";

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