Link to app not working in Chrome browser in iOS

[ArialBlack]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Take iOS device
2. Open Chrome browser
3. Try to open app starting with https://apps.apple.com...

What happens: current page just reloaded. Looks like target="_blank" with this url in Chrome prevents iOS to catch link. Btw, link starting with https://itunes.apple.com.. works fine.

What should happen: You can add check: if iOS && Chrome && link starts with https://apps.apple.com... => delete attribute target="_blank"

[ain]

Reproduced. iTunes link malfunctions as well though.

This is indeed a very unfortunate behaviour by the corporate browser. No such failure is there in Safari or Firefox.

Thanks for reporting!

[mreinhart]

Is there a reason to open in a new window (target="_blank") for any device? There might be I just can't think of one at the moment.

[ain]

Good question @mreinhart.

The reasoning is legacy support which, depending on a particular Android setup, would see people navigating directly to Play Store page instead of a new tab.

Let's pick this change up for version 2 ("breaking" version).

[AleksandrLeontev]

@ain Still have this problem with Chrome (on Safari works good), even with v2 branch.
When you will add this fix to the repo? Or maybe do you have some hot fix?

[ain]

Thanks for the heads up @AleksandrLeontev, this is something that is in the works. There're also other features that would be launched in v2, making it a major (breaking) release. We have some clean-up to perform and some tests to adjust accordingly. That'll take a bit of time.

We're targeting 1st half of January for the v2.

[KameronJohnson]

@ain,
Any updates on this one? Everything works great except trying to open an App Store link from Chrome. Thanks.

[m41w4r3exe]

@ain,
thanks for the great lib.

Anyone found a fix or workaround for this until v2 is out?

[ain]

Sorry for the delay guys! This has been picked up again, please hold on for the update.