Android Intents/iOS Extensions?

[Monte Goulding]

On 24 Apr 2015, at 1:16 pm, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

> Monte Goulding wrote:
> 
> > On 24 Apr 2015, at 11:38 am, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> >
> >> Does that mean I should be able to add intents to my Android
> >> build so my app can be among those that can receive specified
> >> file types?
> >
> > Yes and no, it means you could add the intent filters to your
> > manifest but there's still no way for you to get the data of
> > the file uri from the intent and read the file from the content
> > resolver...
> 
> In my rabid desire for this it seems I've misunderstood what the urlWakeUp message and mobileGetLaunchUrl function are for.
> 
> My hope was that urlWakeUp would launch my app and allow me to respond with a card designed for handing such requests, and the path to the image (or browser URL or whatever else is being shared) would be obtainable from mobileGetLaunchUrl.
> 
> If not for this purpose, what are those for?


These are for handling custom url protocols.

Cheers

Monte

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