Calling another program

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I'm working on monotouch framework, I'm writing an application for iPhone device, I want to call another program running on the iPhone from my own code...

Anyone can help me with this, usually in C# we just create a process for that exe file.

Is there anyway to do that with monotouch?????

Regards

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 15 '12 at 07:33

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You could of course use URL Schemes, but those suck. I have a blog post on super-duper-easy-peasy local cross-application communication using background tasks in iOS.

It's basically the same way that PhoneGap and Appcelerator Titanium work to communicate back to native platform specific APIs:

Code: https://github.com/anujb/MultitaskingHttp

Blog Post: http://blog.devnos.com/remember-when-apps-didnt-talk-to-each-other

answered Jan 15 '12 at 07:33

Anuj

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Blog post link isn't working; Kindly post the the core of your post here; – Ans Mar 13 '13 at 08:08

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 15 '12 at 08:41

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In Objective C code you can go with URL Schemes, using that you can launch another application from your application.

answered Jan 15 '12 at 08:41

Mrunal

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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The short answer is that this can only be done of a URL scheme catches it. The long answer has, well---already been answered :)

edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

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answered Jan 15 '12 at 07:09

Authman Apatira

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Calling another program

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