How to start another app using WebIntent

[KimTLee]

I'm really confused as to how I could start another app using WebIntent.

I have 2 apps built with PhoneGap (I'm using PhoneGapBuild) and I want to be able to start one app from the other one and vice versa.

On iOS I simply use a URL scheme: I specify the URL scheme for the app in PhoneGapBuild config.xml file and then open that URL in the other app.

With WebIntent I'm really at a loss as to what to do...as it's shown on the PhoneGapBuild plugin list I guess it works with PhoneGapBuild, but I don't know if I'm supposed to update the config.xml file also.

[mahomedalid]

Hi, I did a pull request to start another app using the package name. Hope the owner gets the pull request and deploy that to phonegap build.

[mahomedalid]

Hi Matt,

I'm using a fork of acen99/Webintent

<gap:plugin name="net.tunts.webintent" />

https://github.com/Tunts/WebIntent/blob/1b379bf499751d12bdec356df3b28fa3b495d7cc/README.md

you can use startActivity and send the packagename, class and extras.

-cheers,

Maho

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Mahomedalid Iván Pacheco Morelos

-- Arquitecto de Software & Sysadmin --

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Matt Witkowicz notifications@github.comwrote:

I am also trying to use this plugin to start another non-PhoneGap app from
my PhoneGapp app.

I am not using PhoneGapBuild, but I am trying to use the sendBroadcast
method of this plugin, however nothing happens. StartActivity works for
selecting an app to send to, but that's not what I'm looking for. I want to
start another app and pass extras back to it.

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[s1rc]

Thanks for the feedback.

I've found some other info, do I need to add an intent-filter in AndroidManifest.xml? Without an intent-filter it triggers the error callback, with an intent-filter it triggers success but doesn't open the package.classname called.

[mahomedalid]

Are you using Phonegap Build (build.phonegap.com) or are you building by
yourself? I've just used the plugin on build@phonegap and I didn't need to
add the intent-filter, just look for the appropiate Intent Activity by adb.

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Mahomedalid Iván Pacheco Morelos

-- Arquitecto de Software & Sysadmin --

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Matt Witkowicz notifications@github.comwrote:

Thanks for the feedback.

I've found some other info, do I need to add an intent-filter in
AndroidManifest.xml? Without an intent-filter it triggers the error
callback, with an intent-filter it triggers success but doesn't open the
package.classname called.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/2#issuecomment-38507155
.

[s1rc]

Building myself.

I can use startActivity to launch the barcode scanner plugin for testing, however I cannot launch another app on the device by package.classname.