I want to know if that is a way in the moment i take a picture, send it in background to other app, like a vault, keepsafe or appprotector?
Without the user has to go to gallery and click in share with others apps above . I would like that was automatic, without use "app chooser".
You would need to ask the authors of your proposed "vault, keepsafe or approtector" if they support some custom API for this. There are no conventions in Android for sending content to another app in the background. In the foreground, you are welcome to use ACTION_SEND, or ShareActionProvider, etc.
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I'm building a somewhat basic app (only testing on Android for now) with multiple lists, one of which is an Inbox list. I can share text from other apps to my app, and it works well.
However, I would like the app to handle the intent without launching the full app UI. For example, if I share a URL from the browser to my app, I would like it to be handled in the background, save the URL to Firestore, and show a toast to the user indicating that it was successful.
Ideally, I would like to put two entries in the share menu, one to add to the Inbox and show a toast as described above, and a second entry that gives the user a modal dialog that floats above the sharing-from app, which allows the user to choose a different list to save to.
I think I'll have to make a (for example) ShareActivity.java, and add it to AndroidManifest.xml, but I have no idea where to go after that, or even if that's the right approach.
I want to create a feature in my app that will allow the user to save a social media post to the gallery. the idea is when the user presses share on the post, my app will appear in the share dialog, and by choosing the app, the image/gif/video will be automatically saved in the gallery. but the data that I receive from the intent is of type text/plain, naturally since the share feature provides a link to the post. however on 9gag and reddit for example, on the share dialog there's a "Save to Gallery" option that does save the post as a media file to the gallery. So my question is, is it possible to program a similar function in my app? what exactly do I need to do to achieve such a functionality? I am not asking for a code, just directions, where to look for an answer since i couldn't find anything on google about my topic.
Thanks in advance !
You need to look at intent filters https://developer.android.com/training/sharing/receive
The idea with these is you declare in your manifest the type of content your app can handle. Then, when a user shares a particular type of data, such as an image, from another app, then your app can be listed as an option to handle that image.
I have ShareActionProvider in my Application. it shares a photo I uploaded with a text I insert. When share is done, I want to show a popup message/dialog with a button OK, clicking on which I should return to my application. The question is: in my application how can I know if share is complete or no ? For example, if I share the photo and text in instagram, how can I know that post is already done.
in my application how can I know if share is complete or no ? For example, if I share the photo and text in instagram, how can I know that post is already done.
That is not possible for ACTION_SEND. What the user does with the shared content in the other app is between the user and the developers of the other app. The user might do something immediately, later, or never. The app might do something immediately or later (e.g., upload the content as part of a periodic sync operation with a server). There is no protocol for the receiving app to tell you that sharing is "done".
Specific apps may offer specific APIs, beyond ACTION_SEND, that offer capabilities in this area, but those will be unique to those apps.
Use a Toast like this: Toast.make(context "Uploaded", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
Toast is just tiny little "popup"
I have an android app, which lets people share content from other apps to it. When it receives the shared data, it looks for the URL in the shared text and fetches the page and does processing on the data fetched. This is designed with specific purpose and not a generic for all apps.
It works fine, except that people have to click the share icon and then choose our app name. With accessibility we can reduce this work for the users. We are able to get the text displayed in the app.
Is it possible to get the content which we would get if we were to click the share button.
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Is it possible to trigger the share button and choose our app without disturbing the user in anyway
You could try that if it's only for 1 specific app. See question How to click button in settings using AccessibilityService? which clicks a button. This will not scale if you want to do this for more apps. You could however parse the text that is on the screen and look for http links and process them in a background service and then show a floating button like Link Bubble Browser
You can simply trigger the share activity of your app when you detect the text from the other app; but the question is how will you know when user is done typing the text?!
One way is you can place a system-wide floating button similar to Facebook Messenger and after user clicks it, the text can be shared. This will reduce number of clicks user has to do.
So,
1) Yes, its possible to get text content via AccessibilityService.
2) No, you cannot automate this action.
I wish to show my other apps under "More Apps" section of while exiting.
What is the the best way to do it ?
Is there is any common library to add my app icon and link of my app. so that It can be shown at the time of interest. It would be great if it is scrollable
Thanks is Advance !
Well since these are your apps you can simply hard-code the icons into a RecyclerView or ListView along with a link leading to Google Play. This really doesn't require a third-party liubrary as it can easily be done by yourself.
If you really want to allow for future expansiveness, you could use a cloud platform like parse where you store the names of different apps as parse objects along with a link and an image (logo). Then you could write a custom adapter for your list which takes the parse objects from your cloud, and populates itself with the logo,link,title,etc.
This is really a matter of comfort and preference rather than finding a library to do this for you. If you need help, feel free to ask, and good luck!
You can show a 'Dialog' asking if the user cares to check some of your other apps with two available options: 'yes' and 'no'. If the user chooses
'no', close the dialog, if he chooses 'yes' - redirect him/her to the following url:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id={Your-Google-Account-Name}
This link will be opened either in the browser or in the Google Play app, whichever your user prefers, and it'll show him/her the list of all your apps.
You can try overriding finish() (Documentation) method inside your Activity. If you're using multiple Activities, consider creating a base Activity so that you don't have to implement this in each Activity.
That said, please consider not doing this. As a user, I'd be super annoyed if I'm trying to close your app and you're not letting me do it. That'd be instant uninstallation from my side. Never annoy your users. Respect their experience.