Hi all!
I just want to share a new findings that helps with app shortcuts in BH and the (un)famous URL schemes that are now pretty hard to find since the handleopenurl.com link is now dead.
Since iOS 13 and up, there is a new Apple scripting app called
Shortcuts that can do a lot of pretty cool things including the simple task of opening any app on your device. What I found out is that you can call a shortcut you made with a common URL scheme that will work in BH App shortcuts.
The basic steps are as follows:
- Open the Shortcuts app on you device and create an "Open App" shortcut to the app of your choice
- Once the shortcut is done, assign it a name, like "Mixer"
- In BH, add the App shortcut as usual, giving it a name like "Open Mixer"
- For the Scheme, enter the following:
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=[name] ,
where, in this example, [name] would be replaced by the word Mixer (no brackets), the name of the shortcut we just made in Shortcuts.
See? With this method, any app can be opened with it's shortcut if it's available in
Shortcuts!
For more info on
Shortcuts app, visit
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/shortcuts/welcome/iosPro tip: Since your actually going through the Shortcuts App before the final destination App, i.e. Mixer in the above example, the quick "Back " arrow on the top left of the screen will take you back to
Shortcuts instead of BandHelper. I know, a bummer so to work around this I added a shortcut to BH in
Shortcuts so I don't have to go through the app switcher to go back!
It helped me a lot, so I hope it will help others too!
Cheers!
gFred