The Glympse application for Android and iOS register the glympse: protocol handler.
The Glympse URI can be invoked by the user or by other applications.
For example, the URI could be a user-clickable hyperlink on an external or local web page, in an SMS text, in an email, etc. The URI can also be invoked from code by other applications on the device.

Glympse Application SDK simplifies generating glympse: URIs and parsing responses sent back by Glympse application.

Application SDK is a tiny open source library that needs to linked to caller application. Sample projects consuming it are available for all supported platforms.

Introduction tutorials are also provided

• for Android
  https://github.com/Glympse/glympse-app-sdk/blob/master/Android/Glympse_Intents_Tutorial.pdf
• and iOS
  https://github.com/Glympse/glympse-app-sdk/blob/master/iOS/Glympse_Scheme_Tutorial.pdf

Reference documentation describing the format of glympse: scheme and intents is also availabla as a part of Application SDK package.

• https://github.com/Glympse/glympse-app-sdk/blob/master/Common/Glympse_URI_Schema.pdf
• https://github.com/Glympse/glympse-app-sdk/blob/master/Android/Glympse_Intents_Reference.pdf

Glympse Application SDK is currently avaialbe for iOS and Android.