Open product in app store

[DistantJ]

Just was wondering. I've taken a look at the iOS Store object and I'm not sure if it offers this...

I want to put out a 'lite' version of my app from which people can press a button to purchase the 'full' version on the App Store, but I want it to just go straight to the product in the App Store without using in-app purchasing (since I want to avoid any in-app stuff until this Lodsys law suit disappears). Is this possible? Is there something I have missed?

[xhedgehogx]

You'd have to put a link to it in your lite app. A button will open that link. Not sure if there's a MMF2 object that will let you do that for the ios exporter though... There might be.

[AyreGuitar]

You can use the Open URL action of the iOS object to achieve this.

[Anders]

You must remember to read the iOS store guidelines from Apple.

Some info here:
http://developer.apple.com/appstore/resources/inapppurchase/

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/StoreKitGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html

You cannot make it an in-app purchase to purchase another application so you must have everything inside your main application and have those features unlocked by the in-app purchase.

Otherwise you will have to just link to the full version of the application in the app-store but you have to maintain two applications: the lite version and the full version as two separate apps.

[DistantJ]

That's the idea, just was wondering if I could link to it without having to go through the browser...