31st May 2012, 07:06 AM | #1 |
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Hi Guys, Just getting into the whole mobile area and think its got good potential. One thing i'd like to know about QR Codes though - can i have one QR code (say like on a poster/leaflet) that directs to an app download? If so how do i make it so that i can use one QR code and send an iPhone user to the apple app store and an android user to the android app store, etc. Any info greatly appreciated. |
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31st May 2012, 07:11 AM | #2 |
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A QR code can only have one action. Whether it be initiating a phone call, a text message, a url, whatever. You could link to each app individually but to do so you would need to have a QR code for each app. Your other alternative is to create a simple mobile friendly page that has two buttons on it, one that links to the iPhone app and one that links to the Android app. When people scan the QR code you then send them to that webpage and they can click on the link for their device.
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Actually you can have different URL for each Operating system in one qr code when it comes to apps. Try this on iphone and android and you will see it goes to different app download. You can do this many in one QR Code iPhone App iPad App Android App Blackberry App Nokia App Microsoft App Quentin |
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There you go, you learn something new everyday. How's that work? I'm assuming it is detecting the user-agent and then redirecting them based on that? | |
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you will need to use useragent detection on the page you point your QR code at - that way you can do a conditional statement based on the type of device that is viewing your web page... ie if iphone redirect to app store - if android redirect to google play... etc there are several ways to do this using php, javascript or a modified htaccess file this is a very simple javascript based one to get you going.... place this before your </head> tag and replace http://www.your-destination-url-here.com with the url you want the particular visitor to be redirected to HTML Code: <script language="javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ if ((navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('iphone')!=-1)) { window.location = "http://www.your-destination-url-here.com"; } if ((navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('android')!=-1)) { window.location = "http://www.your-destination-url-here.com"; } /* ]]> */ </script> Cheers Jay |
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the OP requires one QR code that pushes the different mobile users to the correct destination for their device... a regular QR code wouldn't and cant handle the redirection - that needs to be done by the destination url as i mentioned above using user agent redirection/forwarding on the page the mobile visitor gets sent too.... the QR code that Quentin demonstrated the redirection is handled by the online software that hosts/generates the QR code, its that that handles the redirection you cant expect to create any old QR code at some basic QR code generation site and expect it to do that without doing applying a redirect on the destination url as i mentioned previously... we host our own QR code tracking service same as Quentin does that simplifies the generation of that redirection type of QR code... | |
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1st Jun 2012, 01:48 AM | #8 |
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I'm with you Jay, must have misread the original query. You're right, if Quentin wants to direct users based on their handset then there's more logic to be included. Our software helps to manage different redirects which can be scheduled in advance but not based on type of mobile device.
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