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Hi Guys,

Now I have installed my appery app on my android phone, I have the possibility to share a web-page to it when browsing the internet (via Chrome for instance), by clicking on the menu button of the phone (then all installed apps are displayed).

When I choose the app to share the URL to, I would like to control the behaviour in the Appery app...is this possible?

Thanks in advance,

Peter

Hi Peter,

Could you please clarify, do you need to open a URL within your app? This should be helpful: http://devcenter.appery.io/documentat...

Hi Katya,

Thanks for the response.

I just want to know how i can handle the incoming data.

I have installed my app (iMonitoring) on my phone. When I browse with Chrome to any website and i press the share button the app is visible, so I can send the current URL / website to the app :

When I click my app in this list it opens, but nothing really happens...I want to be able to handle te received information (For example, open a form and edit the url).

Is this possible?

Thanks again,

Peter

Hello!

We are sorry for delay! Working on it at the moment.

Hello Peter,

Please look at this link, it should be usefull:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16...

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the response.

So I need to put next code somewhere in the App :

code
document.addEventListener('deviceready', function () {
window.plugins.webintent.getExtra(WebIntent.EXTRA\_TEXT, function (url) {
// url is the value of EXTRA_TEXT
}, function() {
// There was no extra supplied.
});
});
/code

This must be available on every page I guess, what's the best place to put this? Love to hear your suggestion.

Thanks,

Peter

Peter,

You can use device ready event on the start page of the application and place the function in it:

codewindow.plugins.webintent.getExtra(WebIntent.EXTRA\_TEXT, function (url) {
// url is the value of EXTRA_TEXT
}, function() {
// There was no extra supplied.
});/code

Or you can add the event listener (all the code that you sent) into custom js file: Create New - JavaScript

Hi Guys,

I'm a bit stuck here.

So my next step will be to add the WebIntent plugin to my project, right?

I don't know how to do so...I am / have read(ing) your tutorial on how to do it, but i'm failing to implement : http://devcenter.appery.io/documentat....

As I understand I have to include 2 files in my app folder, a JAVA file and a JavaScript file (wich can be found here http://devcenter.appery.io/documentat...)...

but where should I place it?

Can you please help me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Peter

Hello Peter,

Please clarify, you are are going to add this plugin:
https://github.com/Initsogar/cordova-...
?
There are 2 files:
https://github.com/Initsogar/cordova-...
https://github.com/Initsogar/cordova-...

To understand where to put the files, look https://github.com/Initsogar/cordova-...

i.e.
1) in the Android/projectName/assets/www/files/resources/lib/plugins/
create a folder
com.borismus.webintent
in it create new folder
www
and put in it
webintent.js
2) in res/xml/config.xml add

code<feature name="WebIntent" >
<param name="android-package" value="com&#46;borismus&#46;webintent&#46;WebIntent"/>
</feature>/code

3) in the Android/projectName/src/com/
create a folder
borismus
and in it
webintent
and add the file WebIntent.java in it

Hi Evgene,

Thanks so much for the detailed information, it helped me a lot...but it's still not working tough.

FYI: All I want to do is to handle the incoming "SHARE-INTENT" from another app.

I have set an alert at the "deviceready" event.

1. When I just open the App the alert is shown.

2. When I try to share something from another app the alert is not shown. Strange thing is that some kind of QR code is showing...

   I see some ZXING activities in the AndroidManifest.xml file, I guess this has something to do with the BarCodeScanner? It seems that before the deviceready event is fired, the incoming message is picked up by this plugin.

   Also I wonder why this plugin exists in my project, I did not add it myself!?

   From the StackOverflow answer I also see that I have to add following code to the AndroidManifest.xml :

   code<intent-filter>
   <action android:name="android&#46;intent&#46;action&#46;SEND" />
   <category android:name="android&#46;intent&#46;category&#46;DEFAULT" />
   <data android:mimeType="text/plain" />
   </intent-filter>/code

   In my manifest file following code was allready present :

   code<activity android:name="com&#46;google&#46;zxing&#46;client&#46;android&#46;encode&#46;EncodeActivity" >
   <!-- This allows us to handle sharing any plain text &#46; -->
   <intent-filter>
   <action android:name="android&#46;intent&#46;action&#46;SEND"/>
   <category android:name="android&#46;intent&#46;category&#46;DEFAULT"/>
   <data android:mimeType="text/plain"/>
   </intent-filter>
   </activity>/code

   Is this intent causing the barcode plugin to be activated?

   I really would like to get this thing working ASAP...

   Thanks,

   Peter