Android Intents/iOS Extensions?

Mark Wilcox mark at sorcery-ltd.co.uk
Thu Apr 23 04:27:27 EDT 2015


On Thu, Apr 23, 2015, at 03:45 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> I'd like to have an app be able to accept data from other programs, like 
> when you click the Share button in an image gallery and a list of 
> programs pops up that can accept images - I'd like mine to be among them.
> 
> I can see from the iOS and Android docs how to register that support in 
> the manifest, but the APIs for actually receiving the data appear to be 
> lower-level, and I haven't found LiveCode messages for those.
> 
> Am I dreaming, or have I just overlooked something buried in a Release 
> Note somewhere?

Not dreaming. Intents have been around forever on Android but I don't
believe LiveCode currently supports receiving them. Extensions are iOS
8+ only, so it's not so surprising that they're not yet supported.

Mark




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