Hello, we have a suite of iOS apps that switch between each other: open App A and it can launch App B, C, or D, and vice versa (with all combos thereof). In the past we have used the "CFBundleURLSchemes" node in the application xml descriptor to identify the app; our code then held which of those schemes were acceptable and then used a simple "navigateToURL" call (flash.net.navigateToURL) to switch to the other app. If the navigateToURL call was not successful within x seconds, we decided that the other app was not installed & threw up an error for the user.
However with the iOS9 release I understand that switching apps is subject to a new security protocol. Details here Awkward Hare - Quick Take on iOS 9 URL Scheme Changes and here About Apple URL Schemes.
I'm wondering if anyone else has worked with this feature in iOS9 and if so, what your implementation looks like. Specifically, I'd like to use the canOpenURL call to test if the other app is available (authorized & installed), and then use the openURL call to launch the second app, but it's unclear to me what the AS code looks like. Nothing jumped out at me from the AS docs, was wondering if I needed to use an ANE for this.
TIA,
--Chi-An
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