Social 'Share' buttons - how to?

Apollo14

Hi all!

Social share buttons have become an industry standard.
How do we integrate them in Gideros?

One way is to redirect users to url like:
https://twitter.com/home?status=Cool game engine! http://giderosmobile.com

Is there a 'native' way to share? (open user's twitter app, not just url in browser)

hgy29

I have an beginning of 'share' plugin which should work for iOS, but I am stuck with the android part.

oleg

@Apollo14 краще твітити коли в грі є якеь досягнення, а не рекламу гри... імхо

наприклад:

"Ви пройшли 10 рівнів гри -хочете повідомити про це друзям?" -і тут посилання на кнопки соцмереж..

Apollo14

@hgy29 there SDK's with native sharing:
https://medium.com/the-megacool-blog/megacool-vs-replaykit-vs-everyplay-b81c8df685fb
and referal program that helps app going viral:
https://megacool.co/blog/zeptolab-cats-megacool-casestudy/
@hgy29 can you pls take a look at it when you'll have some time? THX!

SinisterSoft

Megacool looks great. I can see how that would help a game go viral.

hgy29

seems easy to implement too!

SinisterSoft

vitalitymobile

There is another option here
https://www.getsocial.im/
I just post for reference

kinrpg

Greetings.
Leave it here if someone needs to update the parameters to share on facebook and twitter.

Share.lua file line 26.

Thanks :-)


self.urls = {
facebook = "http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u="..url.."&quote="..title,
twitter = "https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text="..title.." "..url
}

MoKaLux

kinrpg said:

Leave it here if someone needs to update the parameters to share on facebook and twitter.

Share.lua file line 26.

Where can I find this Share.lua file please?

kinrpg

MoKaLux said:

kinrpg said:

Leave it here if someone needs to update the parameters to share on facebook and twitter.

Share.lua file line 26.

Where can I find this Share.lua file please?

keszegh

in android i'd like to 'share' a file (of my own format) - as an attachment in an email, save to sd etc. options should come up, as i've seen in other apps.
is there any way for that?

and for the reverse, can you tell me how can i let android know that opening a file of my own format should be sent to my app? (also my app should receive the file or the path to the file)

rrraptor

@keszegh
Maybe this still works?
http://forum.giderosmobile.com/discussion/6104/share-text-or-binary-in-android/p1

But instead of "text/plain" use something else?

P.S. to get activity:

local bridge = native.getClass("com.giderosmobile.android.plugins.bridge.GBridge") local activity = bridge.getActivity()

keszegh

thanks @rrraptor , i will check that forum topic about share.

i will also check what you wrote about how to get activity, although it's not clear how i should use it.

rrraptor

@keszegh

To use native functions you need to get application activity first.

local share = native.getClass("com.giderosmobile.android.Share") share.sendText(activity) --< activity

In order to test this thing you need to compile you project because of "Native" plugin.