掲示板 Forums - Support to launch the App via URL-Scheme?

Hi,

I apologise if this was aksed and answered before - I tried searching but to no avail.

Does the Renshuu iOS App have an url-scheme that can be used to open the app from other apps like Scriptable, Widgey or a link in a browser?

As an example - Lingodeer registers 'com.lingodeer://' as URL-Scheme and if I type that in Safari it will open up Lingodeer.
This is incredibly usefull if you want to allow launching an application from things like a Widgey Widget or from tools like Scriptable.

In the likely case this isn't possible (yet), all that would be required is this little bit in the Info.plist of Renshuu which would allow anyone to open the application using 'org.renshuu://' as URL-Scheme:

<key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
<array>
  <dict>
    <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
    <string>Editor</string>
    <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
    <array>
      <string>org.renshuu</string>
    </array>
  </dict>
</array>

I second a desire for this feature! Just tried to hookup Renshuu URL lookups in my AnkiDroid Kaishi 1.5k deck, and ended up here.
I love Renshuu's community driven mnemonics and would love to quickly check them while on Anki.

Right now I have it setup to lookup on Jisho

マイコー先生、こんにちは！
Full disclosure I am by no means an informed person in the art of URL lookup stuff. I found out about them very recently.
Also I realize now that this is an IOS thread, which is a detail I missed earlier. I'm using an Android phone currently and can not speak for IOS. I don't know if that's even relevant though for reasons I will explain below (Unordered Bullets #1).

Actions to Support

If you're looking for specific actions that I would like to use personally, these would be my two actions:

1. Search on Vocabulary Dictionary / "Words" Tab as the default option.
2. Search on Kanji Dictionary / "Kanji" Tab.

As for Grammar and Sentences, I think that would be more complicated and better reserved for a "Part 2" if at all.

For these items I believe the following should be important:

• The URL schema should be identical for IOS, Android, PC, etc.
  • This is because if say two people on different platforms download the same AnkiWeb deck with URL lookups, they would both work fine.
• The URL schema should be documented so Users can find it. (Maybe "Resources" > "Tool" or "Renshuu API")
• I personally wouldn't use this but I know supporting Unicode values for Kanji is important for some people, just depends on their use case.

Useful Reference

As for the actual URL schema, I think Chase Colburn's Kanji Study app's documentation could be a good developer reference for that (Mobile App Only):
(I'll provide just the relevant ones here for brevity, this is from Kanji Study App's "Settings" > "About" > "Linking Options" menu.)

=Search screen=

kanjistudy://search?q=freedom  (where q (or query) is the url encoded search criteria.)

=Kanji info screen=

kanjistudy://info?code=23383   (where code is the unicode value for the kanji character.)
kanjistudy://info?kanji=学     (where kanji is the character literal)

Obviously the scheme would change to "renshuu://" or something similar.

My apologies in advance if it's improper to directly reference someone else's work, or anything like that, it's just a good example that I found in the wild and what led me down this path in the first place.

What I do now

To actually use this (kanjistudy + jisho depending on platform) I currently have an Anki card format as such:

HTML Back Template:

<a class="android-only-link" href="kanjistudy://search?q={{Word}}" target="_blank">
    {{furigana:Word Furigana}}
</a>

<a class="desktop-only-link" href="https://jisho.org/search/{{Word}}%20" target="_blank">
    {{furigana:Word Furigana}}
</a>

CSS Styling:

/* If PC show only PC link */
.android-only-link { display: none; }
.desktop-only-link { display: inline-block; }

/* If Mobile show only Mobile link */
.android .android-only-link { display: inline-block; }
.android .desktop-only-link { display: none; }