Open native app store from a single link?

Question

I am creating an app using PhoneGap for Android, iPhone and Windows Phone. I have to send a common URL in phone by SMS, so is it possible to open the native app store in the phone through a common link?

Like if someone have iPhone then after clicking on that link the app store will show that app to download.

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

You could detect which OS the client is using and then proceed to load the correspondent URL. As Govind Singh Nagarkoti suggests in this post ( redirect to appstore or google play ) you could do something like this:

<script>
     $(document).ready(function (){
         if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("android") > -1){
             window.location.href = 'http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=PACKAGEURL';
     }
         if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("iphone") > -1){
             window.location.href = 'http://itunes.apple.com/lb/app/PACKAGEURL';
     }
    });
</script>

Open native app store from a single link?

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