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copied!<p>Rather than the long and confusing urls that you usually see, you can create App Store links that are much simpler and more logical. The iTunes Store has a hidden URL format that’s much more logical. Depending on what you’re linking to, you just need to build a URL in one of these formats:</p> <ol> <li>Artist’s name or App Store developer’s name: <a href="http://itunes.com/Artist_Or_Developer_Name" rel="noreferrer">http://itunes.com/Artist_Or_Developer_Name</a></li> <li>Album name: <a href="http://itunes.com/Artist_Name/Album_Name" rel="noreferrer">http://itunes.com/Artist_Name/Album_Name</a></li> <li>Apps: <a href="http://itunes.com/app/App_Name" rel="noreferrer">http://itunes.com/app/App_Name</a></li> <li>Movies: <a href="http://itunes.com/movie/Movie_Title" rel="noreferrer">http://itunes.com/movie/Movie_Title</a></li> <li>TV: <a href="http://itunes.com/tv/Show_Title" rel="noreferrer">http://itunes.com/tv/Show_Title</a></li> </ol> <p>Just include a url of this format in the body of the email you create.</p> <p>(Note that spaces might cause problems, but I found that omitting them entirely worked for me - <a href="http://itunes.com/app/FrootGroove" rel="noreferrer">http://itunes.com/app/FrootGroove</a> redirects to the app called "Froot Groove".)</p> <p>(Also note that if this doesn't work for you, the iTunes link maker is <a href="http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStoreServices.woa/wa/itmsLinkMaker" rel="noreferrer">here</a>)</p> <p>Your code will be something like this (extracted from mine, anonymised and not tested)</p> <pre><code>NSString* body = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Get my app here - %@.\n",myUrl]; #if __IPHONE_OS_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED <= __IPHONE_2_2 [NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:1.0]; NSString* crlfBody = [body stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\n" withString:@"\r\n"]; NSString* escapedBody = [(NSString*)CFURLCreateStringByAddingPercentEscapes(kCFAllocatorDefault, (CFStringRef)crlfBody, NULL, CFSTR("?=&+"), kCFStringEncodingUTF8) autorelease]; NSString *mailtoPrefix = [@"mailto:xxx@wibble.com?subject=Get my app&body=" stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; // Finally, combine to create the fully escaped URL string NSString *mailtoStr = [mailtoPrefix stringByAppendingString:escapedBody]; // And let the application open the merged URL [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:mailtoStr]]; #endif </code></pre> <p>You can do better things in iPhone 3.0, but I can't talk about those yet.</p>

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