What’s new in Launch Center Pro 2.1

Launch Center Pro brings quite a few exciting features for users of all levels. If you have any questions about these, don’t hesitate to ask on Twitter or using the “Submit a request” link below.

Thank you for spreading the word so we can keep bringing you new and useful features!

Fleksy Keyboard Support

Fleksy is an amazing alternative keyboard with a patent pending text prediction engine and a powerful autocorrect engine. As a Fleksy SDK for iOS launch partner, we’re excited to be among the first apps to get this powerful feature into the hands of our users.

Usage examples:

[prompt-fleksy]                 # Prompt with Fleksy
[prompt-fleksy:Prompt Title]    # ... with a title
[prompt-fleksy-voice:Title]     # Reads the words aloud as you type
[prompt-fleksy-list]            # Converts line breaks into commas

Lists

One of the most useful new features in 2.1 is the [list] tag. Think of it like a [prompt], but as multiple choice. This can be very useful in a workflow where you commonly choose between a handful of options.

# With a title
[list:Choose a person|David|Justin|Brock]
      ^Title         ^Pipe starts the options

# Without a title
[list:|David|Justin|Brock]
      ^ You still need an opening |

# You can specify a value different than the tile by using a "=".
[list:Call|David=5122222222|Justin=2144444444|Brock=5121111111]

Photo Attach options

Prior to Launch Center Pro 2.1, support and syntax to specify a photo varied per action. In 2.1 we’ve normalized the way to specify a photo for all applicable internal actions via the attach parameter. While we were at it, we added a few new options for getting a photo.

?attach=photo               # Offers a prompt to choose from common sources
?attach=photo:last          # Uses the last photo on your camera roll
?attach=photo:camera        # Opens the camera for you to snap a new photo
?attach=photo:frontcamera   # Defaults to the front camera
?attach=photo:library       # Offers a photo picker for your entire library
?attach=photo:cameraroll    # Offers a photo picker for your camera roll
?attach=photo:dropbox       # Allows you to pick a photo from Dropbox
?attach=photo:clipboard     # Uses the photo on your clipboard

Optional Parameters

The above attachment types have sensible defaults for most uses, but we added a few handy options for advanced uses. Simply add these parameters to your URL as needed.

Universal Options

&quality=0..100             # Allows you to specify the JPG compression quality
&maxwidth=640               # Resizes proportionally. The value is at 1x
&maxheight=640              # (Same as above)

Camera Options

&flash=yes|no               # omit to use auto/default
&edit=yes|no                # If enabled, it presents the system square-crop editing screen after taking a photo. Defaults to *no*.
&save=yes|no                # Also save the photo to your camera roll? (Defaults to *yes*)
&fullres=yes|no             # The default is to use the image at screen resolution with all applied edits (rotation/crop/etc). You can override this by specifying *yes* and you'll get the raw unedited image.  (Also applies to library and cameraroll sources.)

Dropbox Options

&path={{/pictures/gifs}}            # Opens a Dropbox picker from this directory
&path={{/pictures/gifs/LOL.gif}}    # Directly downloads the specified images
&cache=yes|no                       # If yes, prevents downloading the same (big?) image if it's already in cache. Defaults to *no*.

iOS Share Sheet

You can now open the system Share Sheet to perform actions with a photo, text, and/or URL.

launch://sharesheet?attach=photo 
launch://sharesheet?text=[prompt]
launch://sharesheet?url=[clipboard]

# or combine them all together
launch://sharesheet
?attach=photo:last&text=[prompt-fleksy:Notes]&url=[clipboard]

Upload Photos to Dropbox

Before 2.1, you could upload the last photo and a photo from your clipboard to Dropbox. (launchpro-dropbox://addlastphoto and launchpro-dropbox://clipboard) These legacy formats still work, but we’ve added the ability to use the full array of attachments as described above.

launch://dropbox/addphoto?attach=photo:camera&path=etc...

This can be very handy to do things like upload receipts to a common folder, etc.

Add Photos to Clipboard

Similar to Dropbox, you can also use the new format to add photos to the Clipboard.

launch://clipboard?attach=photo:last    # you may use any of the photo sources above
launch://clipboard?text=mytext          # adding text is similar

Social Share Sheets (Twitter, Facebook, Sina Weibo)

Before 2.1, you could only attach the last photo or a dropbox photo to a share sheet. We now support the full range of photo attachments, as well as setting the initial text.

launch://facebook?text=[prompt:My Mood]&attach=photo:selfie

Disable Prompt Autocorrection

We’ve had a few requests to provide a means of disabling autocorrection and capitalization in prompts. We’re happy to offer this by simply adding an extra : before your title.

[prompt::My Title]          # with a title
[prompt::]                  # without a title (it looks funny, but hey, it works!)
[prompt-return::Title]      # it works with alternate keyboards (not Fleksy) as well

TextExpander update

We now support the latest version of TextExpander’s iOS SDK. Snippets must now be manually synced in the Settings view.