Abacus Updates
Abacus Feature: iOS URL Schemes
As of v1.1 of the Abacus iOS application, you can now launch the app using the custom URL scheme abacus://.
Why is this awesome? Imagine you want to expense an Uber ride. Uber could create an ‘Expense with Abacus’ button that would automatically load up the ‘new expense’ screen, pre-filled with the amount, the merchant (‘Uber’), and the note (‘Ride from 220 East 23rd to 1 west 72nd St.’)
How does it work?
Just launch Abacus:
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abacus:// |
Open an existing expense:
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abacus://transactions/:expense_id |
Paramaters(required):
- expense_id – Abacus expense Id.
Create a new expense:
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abacus://new_expense |
Paramaters (all optional):
- vendor – Name of the vendor where this expense occurred as a URL encoded string
- amount – Amount of the expense in USD as a decimal number
- note – Note to be included in the expense as a URL encoded string
How do I use them?
From an iOS App:
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NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"abacus://new_expense?vendor=Uber&amount=22.25"]; if([[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:url]){ [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url]; } |
From a mobile website:
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<a href="abacus://new_expense?vendor=Uber&amount=22.25">Expense with Abacus</a> |
-Josh