Open Twitter settings from app in iOS 5.1

Question

I am implementing Twitter in my iPhone application and if the user does not have any Twitter accounts set up, I would like him to be able to open his Twitter settings from my app. Is there any way to do this in iOS 5.1?

In iOS 5.0 we could do as below but I have not managed to find a way to do this in 5.1

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"prefs:root=TWITTER"]];

I've answered this in a different question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11325266/open-twitter-setting-from-acaccountstore-ios-5-1-twitter/13293846#13293846 — Senior, Nov 08 '12 at 17:00

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 22 '13 at 13:19

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Try this..

 TWTweetComposeViewController *ctrl = [[TWTweetComposeViewController alloc] init];
        if ([ctrl respondsToSelector:@selector(alertView:clickedButtonAtIndex:)]) {
            // Manually invoke the alert view button handler
            [(id <UIAlertViewDelegate>)ctrl alertView:nil
                                 clickedButtonAtIndex:0];
        }
        [ctrl release];

answered Mar 22 '13 at 13:19

objc_developer

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Now this is what I'd like to call a hack. You could also just add a runtime override to `[UIApplication openURL:]`, which would probably be easier, and safer long-term. – Richard J. Ross III Mar 22 '13 at 13:23
@obj_developer, Wow! Totally Loved this hack :) My only concern is that Will this "opening of the Twitter settings from an app" be approved by Apple any more? Is this a valid concern? – defactodeity Mar 23 '13 at 05:08
@RichardJ.RossIII [UIApplication sharedApplication]openURL: it doesn't work in 5.1 – objc_developer Mar 28 '13 at 04:19
@objc_developer no; what I'm saying is that your back probably uses `-openURL:` in the background, so you override it and log out the URL that you can use normally. – Richard J. Ross III Mar 28 '13 at 04:26

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '12 at 02:29

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I don't know the reason why but Apple has removed the settings apps URL Schemes. Yes it was working in iOS 5.0 but it doesn't work in 5.1

answered Mar 30 '12 at 02:29

defactodeity

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So, there is no way for 5.1?! – Almas Adilbek Jun 02 '12 at 05:33
Nah, none that we know. I still see one Apple's example on how to use Twitter's framework, TweetViewController is internally opening the "Settings" page. But no idea how to go and hack the URL they use for that. – defactodeity Jun 07 '12 at 12:08
@defactodeity you could always override the implementations using the runtime, but that's hacky at best. – Richard J. Ross III Mar 22 '13 at 13:22
@RichardJ.RossIII, Totally LOved the hack! – defactodeity Mar 23 '13 at 04:57

Open Twitter settings from app in iOS 5.1

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