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(how) can i share a file generated by my app and then send it back to my app when opened?
keszegh
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In my animation app 'Fragmenter' the animations are saved into their own format (and extension), i want to include a share option so that when e.g. a button is pressed then this file is opened with whatever share app (gmail e.g.) one chooses and attaches the file to the email automatically.
Then as a next step if one receives such an email and opens the attachment having the given extension, then i want it to be offered to be opened in my app, and when i choose my app then it loads the file in from the attachment.
Do you have any idea if this can be done and how? (i need it on android) I don't even know how to start.
For the second part probably i need to register some kind of intent etc, but i still have minimal knowledge about android. Also i wonder from the above how much can be done from within gideros without a plugin and for which part do i need a plugin, and what should that do.
Thanks a lot
Then as a next step if one receives such an email and opens the attachment having the given extension, then i want it to be offered to be opened in my app, and when i choose my app then it loads the file in from the attachment.
Do you have any idea if this can be done and how? (i need it on android) I don't even know how to start.
For the second part probably i need to register some kind of intent etc, but i still have minimal knowledge about android. Also i wonder from the above how much can be done from within gideros without a plugin and for which part do i need a plugin, and what should that do.
Thanks a lot
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Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game
So first thing that can't be currently done in Gideros is send email with attachment, so you would need a plugin that would do it with Android intent:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19169516/sending-email-attachment-android-with-intent-only-works-in-gmail
To open app for specific extension, you need to register this extension in manifest:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4799576/register-new-file-type-in-android
Which again the path will be provided by the Intent in Activity and you would need to call an Event and provide path to Gideros side through plugin
this shall be enough to start to experiment. i just hate to touch plugins, although it is not that horrible. there was a word about simplifying further android plugin creation, i don't know if this will happen but would not hurt (me).
so thanks again,
and in case anybody has already a plugin for the first and/or second part of this process, don't hesitate to share it.
Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game