Launching the App Store from an iPhone application

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Q:  How do I launch the App Store from my iPhone application? Also, how do I link to my application on the store?

A: The -[UIApplication openURL:] method handles links to applications and media by launching the appropriate store application for the passed NSURL object. Follow the steps below to obtain a link to an application, song, or album sold on iTunes, and link to it from your iPhone application:

1. Launch iTunes on your computer.

2. Search for the item you want to link to.

3. Right-click or control-click on the item's name in iTunes, then choose "Copy iTunes Store URL" from the pop-up menu.

4. Open the modified URL using an NSURL object and the -[UIApplication openURL:] method.

See Listing 1 for an example that launches the App Store from a native application.

Listing 1  Launching the App Store from an iPhone application.

NSString *iTunesLink = @"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id284417350?mt=8";

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:iTunesLink]];