Investigate use of platform APIs for direct client hub-to-app communication

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Confidential Storage Specification and Implementation

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Investigate use of platform APIs for direct client hub-to-app communication #18

Closed csuwildcat closed 4 years ago

csuwildcat commented 7 years ago

We might be able to use APIs like this https://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/BroadcastReceiver.html to enable apps to fetch data and communicate with client hubs.

cvan commented 7 years ago

Can you share some context here? A Pub-sub communication between apps (à la BroadcastChannel from the JS API land)?

csuwildcat commented 7 years ago

The desire is for other apps on the client to be able to retrieve data from the client local copy of data, if it exists, before going to a Hub server. This will require either an SDK that knows how to locate and background request the data from the user's on-device identity management app (the client replicated Pouch instance), and if it can't, perform the request from the server.

tplooker commented 4 years ago

Resolved on 07/04/2020 call