[Android] Receiving simple data from other apps

[sbinet]

hi,

I am a complete naive beginner wrt developing for Android.
I am trying to assess whether hyperview would allow me to create an application that could receive data from other apps (say, "share the current tab's URL from Firefox to my-hyperview app").

quickly perusing the following:
https://developer.android.com/training/sharing/receive

it seems to me one would need the hyperview application to implement an Activity and declare a text/plain intent-filter.

would that be something achievable within hyperview model ?

[adamstep]

Hi @sbinet . From what I can tell in the linked docs, you need to:

• configure the Android app manifest to receive intents (this would have to be done outside of the Hyperview model)
• Have some code in your app to handle the received data and do something with it.

The second step is technically possible to do with Hypervie. However support for intents in Hyperview does not already exist so you'd have to implement it yourself as a custom form element, which would require some knowledge of Android APIs and React Native. If you are a beginner with Android development, I might recommend not adding the abstractions of React Native and Hyperview on top of it, since it could get confusing developing on the different layers.