Use custom URL scheme to send PDF url to iBooks application using as3 and FlashBuilder 4.6?

Question

I'm currently developing an iOS specific app using Adobe FlashBuilder 4.6 and Air 3.4 and all is going well...

My only problem is that the application will be targeting a large collection of PDF files that we have on our website, I want the user to be able to view the PDF files in the native iBooks application. (So that they can email, print etc - StageWebView was an option before I discovered that all action bars are removed in the viewport)

I have tried using this code, the code DOES open iBooks but it does not invoke the load of the PDF file...

navigateToURL(new URLRequest("ibooks://www.website.com/myPdf.pdf"));

Is there a way to send the path of the PDF to iBooks using AS3?

Also, is there a way to detect if iBooks is installed before attempting to launch it? (Not as much of an issue as I will be prompting users on first launch that they need iBooks but it would be nice to be able to detect if they have it!)

Many thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Have you tried with the itms-books:// and itms-bookss:// schemes?

Also, this looks like a much better solution to me http://andycodes.tumblr.com/post/738375724/ios4-sdk-opening-pdfs-in-ibooks but you'll need to implement it through a native extension ...