open a file or url in an external app, trigger android.intent.action.VIEW|SEND

[PawelSuwinski]

Hi

It could be nice feature apart to app.loadURL() to have also possibility to send to or view resource externally using android built-in app chooser having something like app.sendURL()|app.viewURL().

For now I do it on back process level by spawning ActivityManager process:

// view/index.html
document.querySelectorAll('#upload a').forEach(a => a.addEventListener('click', e => { 
  e.preventDefault();
  front.send('view', e.target.href);
})));

// main.js
back.on('view', file => require('child_process').execFile('am',
  [...'start --user 0 -a android.intent.action.VIEW -d'.split(' '), file],
  err => err && back.send('error', err)));

[Chhekur]

Hey @PawelSuwinski,
I am actually thinking to work on this for a long time but I didn't get a chance to work on this, if someone can contribute to the project and raise a PULL request will be the fastest way to build this.
But yeah I'll try to implement this as soon as I get time to work on this ; )

[PawelSuwinski]

I am rather on basic level with Java and Android SDK so I will not try to do any contribution, but I think good starting point could be with TermuxOpenReceiver implementation:

https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/blob/master/packages/termux-tools/termux-open
https://github.com/termux/termux-app/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/termux/app/TermuxOpenReceiver.java

[PawelSuwinski]

After all I will try to, it could be some challange, but based on am system command execution by implementing app.exec():

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