Is it possible single Box App to authenticate different iOS apps? - objective-c

The whole idea is to authenticate App, App Lite, App iPhone, App iPhone Lite with single Box.com App ID and return the user to the right app which redirected to the user to the authorization/authentication web site.
My Conclusion till now leads to using different App Id, because of lack of option to add different Redirect url's and respectively possibility for [box-api] to recognize the right caller application.
Will it work if I try to embed auth url in UIWebView and handle the response from that webView?

We currently don't support this use case, and you'll need separate App IDs

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Please refer the attached screenshot link for clarity.
Screenshot for the workaround
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Via: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/General/Conceptual/AppSearch/UniversalLinks.html
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