I am developing a mobile app using flex 4.5
I want to let the user share a plain text using any of the apps available in his device (whatsapp, facebook, skype, bluetooth, ..). How can I do that? I know how to email, sms and call. But don't know how to share.
Please help
Air does not have native support for this feature, however you can use it with the navigateToURL method, but its still very clumsy.
You need to use Android SDK Share Intent URL's to access the native share menu's.
more info here: Air Share Intent
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My query is related to Mesibo Javascript SDK. I have integrated Mesibo into my website and was testing it on all browsers but the chat popup does't seem to be working specifically on Microsoft edge. Here is the video of the same: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yyzJn-LDRYAjLQb4DZLOg4i5ApCR9i4W/view?usp=sharing
Can somone please tell me if Mesibo SDK is usually not compatible with Microsoft Edge browser and if not, how can the problem on the video be fixed.
Apart from that, can you also please tell me if the Javascript SDK for Mesibo provides an API to tell the user if he has a new message in a chat (like whatsapp displays "1" on a chat if there is a new message from that person)
Thanks.
mesibo API does not provide any UI, what you are using is the sample code which you can modify to suit your needs.
Read tutorials here, you need to set listener to get new message notification. https://mesibo.com/documentation/tutorials/first-app/js/
So Firebase has these Dynamic links, which if you click in your Android / iPhone you get redirected to your app instead of the website. So when you want to invite your friends to join you in the app (game, group chat or whatever) you just share this link with them.
I was wondering if this was achievable with UWP. I watched a video about project Rome where they talk about AppUriHandlers which seem to do the job. HOWEVER they require you to have a json file at your web server root which would identify your app, saying "yea, this app is allowed and me are associated, open this app when someone launches this link".
The problem with that is that the Firebase dynamic link points to a google endpoint, e.g. https://aaxy2.app.goo.gl/?link=redirect_here and naturely there is going to be no json file just sitting there.
Is there some other way how to have users redirected to my app just via a link (it needs to be an http link because that's what the Android and iOS versions of the app will be using).
It's not going to be possible; for this exact reason. To ensure that web links aren't hijacked by third parties (for potentially malicious reasons), only the owner of a domain (or more accurately: the person/people with access to the storage where the domains points) can "approve" an app.
Update:
After actually doing my job and properly reading your question, I can give you a correct answer; sorry :/
Linking to UWP apps will work similarly to how it's described for iOS apps in the first section here:
You can do the iOS 8 way and support a uri scheme as described in the Windows docs here.
With the Anniversary Update you can also support AppUriHandlers by directing your users to a web link that will launch your app instead (as described in the Dynamic Links docs for iOS 9).
It looks like, however, that you need to register an iOS or Android app to get going, so that might give you some trouble.
Is it possible to make a PhoneGap native app from a Wordpress mobile blog?
I understand that PhoneGap allows you to develop HTML5 apps and turn them into native mobile applications.
I'm looking to create a content distribution app somewhat like the ones so many local news services use (WGAL, Channel 69 News), but to be able to list it in the Android Market Place and the AppStore, as well as be able to access it online all with the same content.
Also are there any alternative methods to accomplish this? Are News apps like that available in some sort of a "canned form"
One way is to essentially you make PhoneGap a web browser without an adress bar. I have an iPhone example here. All I did was make javascript redirect upon loading the application, whitelisted my IP (in the case of the example it's local host) and modified the Appdeligate.m with this piece of code from:
- (BOOL) webView:(UIWebView*)theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest*)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
{
return [self.viewController webView:theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:request navigationType:navigationType];
}
to
- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest*)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
{
NSURL *url = [request URL];
if ([[url scheme] isEqualToString:#"http"] || [[url scheme]isEqualToString:#"https"]) {
return YES;
}
else {
return [ super webView:theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:requestnavigationType:navigationType ];
}
}
and voila, a "native" app, with access to all local resources (storage, camera, etc) built on web frameworks! Weather or not Apple or the others will let something like this in their app store I still have yet to investigate but it sure works well for demonstration purposes or personal apps.
We have just created a similar concept using PhoneGap and Application Craft, but Apple rejected the application, this is the message we received:
We found that the experience your app provides is not sufficiently different from a web browsing experience, as it would be by incorporating native iOS functionality to provide a more robust user experience.
While your app content may differ from your web site or other existing sites, the experience it provides does not differ significantly from the general experience of using Safari, as required by the App Store Review Guidelines.
You may wish to provide convenient access to a web property for a select or niche group of users - and may have enhanced that experience with features such as Push Notifications, Core Location, and/or sharing features. However, these features do not provide a robust enough user experience to be appropriate for the App Store.
If you wish to provide quick access to a web property, you may wish instead to provide instructions to your users on how to create a Safari web clip to add to their iOS device Home Screen. Or, if you would like to share the app with a select group of users, we recommend the Ad Hoc distribution method. See the iOS Provisioning Portal for details on Ad Hoc Distribution.
We encourage you to review your app concept and evaluate whether you can incorporate additional features to enhance the user experience.
If you cannot - or choose not to - revise your app to be in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines, you may wish to build an HTML5 web app instead. You can distribute web apps directly on your web site; the App Store does not accept or distribute web apps.
HTML5 is the major new version of HTML and enables audio and video to play natively in the browser without requiring proprietary plug-ins. Using HTML5, web apps can look and behave like native iPhone and iPad apps, and using HTML5's Offline Application Cache, a web app can work even when the device is offline. With web apps, you have flexibility to deliver as much or as little functionality as you desire.
To get started with iPhone or iPad web apps, please review Getting Started with iPhone Web Apps.
For a description of the HTML elements and attributes you can use in Safari on iPhone, check out Safari HTML Reference: Introduction.
Unfortunately I can not link this as it was a reply to our application submission and not on one of the help platforms. We have not tried Google Play Store yet but from what I understand they will most likely accept the app, will update when we have tried.
I am building a mobile application in Flex 4.5 and from this app I would like to start the device's native navigation tool, like Google Navigation for example.
Is there a way to open the Navigation App using Flex 4.5?
As far as I knew, there was no way to launch other applications from a mobile Flex App.
Some native apps can be opened using URLs. It is, basically, the Flash Platform version of saying "Let the OS Handle it." If you HTTP link to a video, for example, it may open in a native player or it may open in the browser.
You can open the native text messaging program using sms as the protocol. As far as I know, there is no universal URL to open navigation services.
This post alludes to the fact that linking to maps.google.com will do it.
You can look into using the AIR Geolocation services APIs; but that is intended for in-app usage not launching other apps.
You can try using StageWebView to open up google maps or something. I don't think there's a way to open the native navigation app because it might not be there and they're different for each device.
My Client wants a native iPhone App that displays their mobile site optimized for iPhone developed using asp.net and ComponentOnes Studio for iPhone. i was planning to use a PhoneGap app which calls an external URL using JavaScript and do it after showing the splash screen. but according to phoneGap FAQ its most likely to apple to reject an app that loads external URL ? just need somebody to clear me on the whole process. isnt it possible to create an app like that ? i've seen various iPhone apps that do this (eg: cydia).
else what care should i take if i'm to develop such an application.
I think you have answered your own question, while it is completly possible to create such an app with Phonegap, Apple isn't going to approve an app that doesn't have functionality when running unconnected (though how much functionality with Apple is never clear). In fact, there have been at least one report on the Phonegap google groups list of app's being rejected because it was just a "web clip", meaning that the app could have just been done as a website, apparently you have to add some functionality, my guess being services exposed by Phonegap, that you wouldn't be able to do on just a website..
And it is more to the point that the app that you chose to use as an example of a "web app", is only available on jailbroken phones.