Classes/LaunchMeAppDelegate.m

/*
     File: LaunchMeAppDelegate.m
 Abstract: The application's delegate class.  Handles incoming 
 URL requests.
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#import "LaunchMeAppDelegate.h"
#import "RootViewController.h"
 
@implementation LaunchMeAppDelegate
 
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  application:openURL:sourceApplication:annotation:
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application openURL:(NSURL *)url sourceApplication:(NSString *)sourceApplication annotation:(id)annotation
{    
    // You should be extremely careful when handling URL requests.
    // Take steps to validate the URL before handling it.
    
    // Check if the incoming URL is nil.
    if (!url)
        return NO;
    
    // Invoke our helper method to parse the incoming URL and extact the color
    // to display.
    UIColor *launchColor = [self extractColorFromLaunchURL:url];
    // Stop if the url could not be parsed.
    if (!launchColor)
        return NO;
    
    // Assign the created color object a the selected color for display in
    // RootViewController.
    [(RootViewController*)self.window.rootViewController setSelectedColor:launchColor];
    
    // Update the UI of RootViewController to notify the user that the app was launched
    // from an incoming URL request.
    [[(RootViewController*)self.window.rootViewController urlFieldHeader] setText:@"The app was launched with the following URL"];
    
    return YES;
}
 
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  extractColorFromLaunchURL:
//  Helper method that parses a URL and returns a UIColor object representing
//  the first HTML color code it finds or nil if a valid color code is not found.
//  This logic is specific to this sample.  Your URL handling code will differ.
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- (UIColor*)extractColorFromLaunchURL:(NSURL*)url
{
    // Hexadecimal color codes begin with a number sign (#) followed by six
    // hexadecimal digits.  Thus, a color in this format is represented by
    // three bytes (the number sign is ignored).  The value of each byte
    // corresponds to the intensity of either the red, blue or green color
    // components, in that order from left to right.
    // Additionally, there is a shorthand notation with the number sign (#)
    // followed by three hexadecimal digits.  This notation is expanded to
    // the six digit notation by doubling each digit: #123 becomes #112233.
    
    
    // Convert the incoming URL into a string.  The '#' character will be percent
    // escaped.  That must be undone.
    NSString *urlString = [[url absoluteString] stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
    // Stop if the conversion failed.
    if (!urlString)
        return nil;
    
    // Create a regular expression to locate hexadecimal color codes in the
    // incoming URL.
    // Incoming URLs can be malicious.  It is best to use vetted technology,
    // such as NSRegularExpression, to handle the parsing instead of writing
    // your own parser.
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSRegularExpression *regex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:@"#[0-9a-f]{3}([0-9a-f]{3})?"
                                                                           options:NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive
                                                                             error:&error];
    
    // Check for any error returned.  This can be a result of incorrect regex
    // syntax.
    if (error)
    {
        NSLog(@"%@", error);
        return nil;
    }
    
    // Extract all the matches from the incoming URL string.  There must be at least
    // one for the URL to be valid (though matches beyond the first are ignored.)
    NSArray *regexMatches = [regex matchesInString:urlString options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, urlString.length)];
    if (regexMatches.count < 1)
        return nil;
    
    // Extract the first matched string
    NSString *matchedString = [urlString substringWithRange:[regexMatches[0] range]];
    
    // At this point matchedString will look similar to either #FFF or #FFFFFF.
    // The regular expression has guaranteed that matchedString will be no longer
    // than seven characters.
    
    // Extract an ASCII c string from matchedString.  The '#' character should not be
    // included.
    const char *matchedCString = [[matchedString substringFromIndex:1] cStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
    
    // Convert matchedCString into an integer.
    unsigned long hexColorCode = strtoul(matchedCString, NULL, 16);
    
    CGFloat red, green, blue;
    
    if (matchedString.length-1 > 3)
    // If the color code is in six digit notation...
    {
        // Extract each color component from the integer representation of the
        // color code.  Each component has a value of [0-255] which must be
        // converted into a normalized float for consumption by UIColor.
        red = ((hexColorCode & 0x00FF0000) >> 16) / 255.0f;
        green = ((hexColorCode & 0x0000FF00) >> 8) / 255.0f;
        blue = (hexColorCode & 0x000000FF) / 255.0f;
    }
    else
    // The color code is in shorthand notation...
    {
        // Extract each color component from the integer representation of the
        // color code.  Each component has a value of [0-255] which must be
        // converted into a normalized float for consumption by UIColor.
        red = (((hexColorCode & 0x00000F00) >> 8) | ((hexColorCode & 0x00000F00) >> 4)) / 255.0f;
        green = (((hexColorCode & 0x000000F0) >> 4) | (hexColorCode & 0x000000F0)) / 255.0f;
        blue = ((hexColorCode & 0x0000000F) | ((hexColorCode & 0x0000000F) << 4)) / 255.0f;
    }
    
    // Create and return a UIColor object with the extracted components.
    return [UIColor colorWithRed:red green:green blue:blue alpha:1.0f];
}
 
@end