Get my app on the "Share" menu?

[Bobby]

Is there a method for adding my app to the "share" feature on devices?
Eg, to send the url of a webpage currently being viewed in the browser to my app?
Thanks!

[iliev]

Hello Bobby,

I would like to thank you for taking the time to report us the issue you encountered on behalf of the Telerik team.

My impressions are that you are trying to:

• Add your application to the share menu.
• Transfer information or url from the native telephone browser to your application.

Icenium's team investigated these issues. You can't add your application to the share menu in iOS, but in Android it can be done using intent filters. To open your app from the browser you need to define your custom url scheme and use it consistently(which is done again through intent-filters). For example:

bobbyapp://some/path/here

Unfortunately modifying intent filters is not currently supported in Icenium at the moment. We've added this issue in our backlog and will be working hard to make it available in future releases.

If you are curious what you will need to do after we support this you can read below:

In your Cordova project's JavaScript, add a global function handleOpenURL which just takes one parameter, which will be a string containing the URL that was launched. Add your code to parse and handle the URL in that global function. This function will be called always if your app was launched from the custom scheme.

function handleOpenURL(url) { // TODO: parse the url, and do something }

IMPORTANT NOTE:

You cannot launch any interactive features like alerts in the handleOpenURL code, if you do, your app will hang. Similarly, you should not call any Cordova APIs in there, unless you wrap it first in a setTimeout call, with a timeout value of zero:

function handleOpenUrl(url) { 
    // TODO: parse the url, and do something 
    setTimeout(function() { 
        // TODO: call some Cordova API here 
    }, 0); 
} 

Kind regards,

Ilian Iliev

the Telerik team

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