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NOtherDev / whatwebcando

An overview of the device integration HTML5 APIs
https://whatwebcando.today/
MIT License
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intents(?) #8

Closed davidmaxwaterman closed 7 years ago

davidmaxwaterman commented 8 years ago

I noticed that 'Facebook' didn't appear in native apps' 'share' page when I used Facebook's web app (link on home screen), while it does if I use the native app. I asked around and it seems there's currently no way for a web app to make itself appear in such lists.

Is this something called 'intents'? It's been a while since I did native android development.

NOtherDev commented 8 years ago

I guess you're right, it was supposed to be handled by Web Intents, but is no longer supported and it seems that no real replacement is available, sadly. I'll maybe add that to the features list one day just to show that the web clearly can't do that today.

davidmaxwaterman commented 8 years ago

yeah, I ended up going back to the native facebook app because this feature is missing...I think it's kind of a big deal, at least while web apps are trying 'catch up' to native :/

shospodarets commented 7 years ago

There is Web Share API which is coming to Google: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/10/navigator-share It currently, works in Chrome on Android under the Origin Trial

NOtherDev commented 7 years ago

Well, actually, I have added Inter-App Communication to What Web Can Do few months back. It includes the description of the new Web Share API as well as now defunct Web Intents. I just forgot to mention it in this issue. Thanks for the reminder!