Sometimes you just want to quickly add a “get directions” feature to your iOS app without spending a lot of time mucking about with URL parameter formatting. If they’ve got the Citymapper native app, it’ll launch the user into directions in the app. This will bring the user to a web page that shows them the destination. It’s exactly the same, except you start with instead of citymapper, like so: If you’re writing a mobile web app, we’ve also got a version of this scheme for the web too. If you want to plan a trip arriving at a certain time (for an event, or a flight), you can add an arriveby time in ISO-8601 format, for example: citymapper://directions?endcoord=51.471493%2C-0.488334&endname=Heathrow%20Airport%20Terminal%205&arriveby=T11%3A00%3A57%2B01%3A00 Strictly speaking, you only need to include endcoord and endname, though including endaddress will add helpful detail to the Citymapper result screen. It goes like this: citymapper://directions?startcoord=,&startname=&startaddress=&endcoord=,&endname=&endaddress=įor example, this URL will give the user directions from their current location to the lovely Abney Park cemetery and nature preserve: citymapper://directions?endcoord=51.563612,-0.073299&endname=Abney%20Park%20Cemetery&endaddress=Stoke%20Newington%20High%20Street The Citymapper iOS and Android apps can be launched using a URL scheme that takes the user straight into directions to the specified destination. Launching Citymapper from iOS and Android Apps If you want to give your users the same handy access to Citymapper directions, here are the details! Here’s how they’ve integrated Citymapper: YPlan is an app that helps their users discover, book in two taps and go see events happening the same night in London (and soon New York). They’ve just relaunched their iOS app with a lovely redesign, and they’ve added the ability to get directions to any venue in Citymapper: Time Out has a long history of being the go-to guide to London events. We’re happy to share the first two examples of this from our friends at Time Out and YPlan-here’s how they’ve integrated Citymapper into their apps: To help with that, we’ve opened things up so that any app or web developer can give their users a chance to jump straight to Citymapper directions with real-time departure information. However, when using other apps to find places to go, it would be handy to be able to get those places into Citymapper automatically. Many Londoners (and now New Yorkers!) have come to trust Citymapper to figure out how to get where they’re going.
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