If you’re not happy with default multitouch gestures, you can go crazy by drawing your own gestures and give them a custom URL scheme.
The action is activated by shaking the device, which will make you look silly when using the iPad, but that is still cool when you’re alone experimenting with URL schemes (or casually eating pasta). Instead, by combining the host (domain) and path, we can construct a URL that can be sent to Chrome without issues. Because the Chrome URL scheme says that googlechrome:// acts as a replacement to on iOS, we can’t use something like googlechrome://%url% in iCab, as it would result in Chrome trying to open – clearly that wouldn’t be right. The last action is kind of particular in that it uses the host and path parameters to build the URL I want to open in Google Chrome. Tweetbot://viticci/post?text=%url%&callback_url=icabmobile:// Note the custom callback (not based on x-callback-url) to return to iCab after a tweet is sent (or cancelled). The Tweetbot action is based on the Tweetbot URL scheme, which is very easy to read and understand.
drafts://x-callback-url/create?text=%url%&action=Stuff%20To%20Check%20Out&x-success=x-icabmobile:// The action that is triggered is one of my Evernote “append” actions, which makes for a nice way to perform a gesture in iCab, save a URL to Evernote, and get back to the browser in seconds. The Drafts action uses the Drafts URL scheme and x-callback-url to return to iCab. I have built three actions that are activated by gestures: one to send the current URL to Drafts, trigger an action, and return to iCab one to send a URL to Tweetbot and go back to iCab and the last one to open the current URL in Google Chrome.
#Icab desktop mode pro
It’s a powerful combination that should be familiar to those who use apps like Drafts or Launch Center Pro on a regular basis. After some experimentation, I have set up actions that let me send a webpage from iCab to Drafts with a two-finger swipe gesture, or a URL to Tweetbot with a three-finger swipe. Available in Tools > General Settings > Multitouch Gestures, the feature allows you to leverage third-party URL schemes and a new set of iCab parameters to send information such as the URL of the webpage you’re currently visiting to other apps installed on your device. Reader’s Services menu, iCab lets you build your own shortcuts to launch other apps from within the browser itself. In short, iCab now lets you launch other apps using URL schemes and multitouch gestures.
ICab Mobile is one of the oldest third-party browsers for iOS, and, even though Chrome is my go-to browser on the iPhone and iPad, I was intrigued by a feature introduced in the latest iCab update, version 7.1.
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