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App Availability

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This plugin allows you to check if an app is installed on the user's device. It requires an URI Scheme (e.g. twitter://) on iOS or a Package Name (e.g com.twitter.android) on Android.

Requires Cordova plugin: cordova-plugin-appavailability. For more info, please see the AppAvailability plugin docs.

Repo: https://github.com/ohh2ahh/AppAvailability

Installation

  1. Install the Cordova and Ionic Native plugins:
    $ ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-appavailability
    $ npm install --save @ionic-native/app-availability@4
    
  2. Add this plugin to your app's module

Supported platforms

Usage

import { AppAvailability } from '@ionic-native/app-availability';
import { Platform } from 'ionic-angular';

constructor(private appAvailability: AppAvailability, private platform: Platform) { }

...

let app;

if (this.platform.is('ios')) {
  app = 'twitter://';
} else if (this.platform.is('android')) {
  app = 'com.twitter.android';
}

this.appAvailability.check(app)
  .then(
    (yes: boolean) => console.log(app + ' is available'),
    (no: boolean) => console.log(app + ' is NOT available')
  );

Instance Members

check(app)

Checks if an app is available on device

Param Type Details
app string

Package name on android, or URI scheme on iOS

Returns: Promise<boolean>

API

Native

General