[raed_saud]

Hi,

I have two javascript functions, one for placing call and other for sending SMS message they are working fine on emulator and iphone web browser but after adding the app to home screen, the SMS function raises this error ” Cannot Open application name The error was The URL can’t be show”. but tel function works fine.

any help will be appreciated.

[support-michael]

@raed_saud

This is a known issue with the iOS mobile safari. Only HTML anchor tags with sms url will launch the iOS messaging application when the webapp is run in standalone mode. We have a workaround for it if a component’s Link property is set to an sms url, e.g., sms:8001234567. Following is the snippet of code from the phoneui.js library from MobiOne. You can see it creates an <a> tag in the DOM, simulates a click of the link and then removes the link.

if (href.match(/^sms:/i)) {
            // Special processing for SMS URL - they do not work in standalone mode
            // when set directly as window.location.href. So, we're implementing
            // workaround here
            var el = jQuery('<a href="' + href + '" style="position:absolute;"/>')
                .appendTo(document.body);
            var e = el[0];
            
            var evt = e.ownerDocument.createEvent('MouseEvents');
            evt.initMouseEvent('click', true, true, 
                    e.ownerDocument.defaultView, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, false, false, false, false, 0, null);
            e.dispatchEvent(evt);
            el.remove();

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