#FediDev is there a generic Android intent for sharing to the Fediverse?
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#FediDev is there a generic Android intent for sharing to the Fediverse?
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#FediDev is there a generic Android intent for sharing to the Fediverse?
@travisfw@fosstodon.org short answer: no
Slightly longer answer: not yet
Long-ass thread (just from last month!): https://activitypub.space/topic/e00a0fd8-31d2-494e-bd8a-31eedcd16ac2/it-s-really-surprising-to-me-that-the-fediverse-hasn-t-agreed-on-a-standardized-way-to-open-cross-instance-activitypub-objects-and-instead-relies-on-links-that-open-in-the-browser
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@travisfw@fosstodon.org short answer: no
Slightly longer answer: not yet
Long-ass thread (just from last month!): https://activitypub.space/topic/e00a0fd8-31d2-494e-bd8a-31eedcd16ac2/it-s-really-surprising-to-me-that-the-fediverse-hasn-t-agreed-on-a-standardized-way-to-open-cross-instance-activitypub-objects-and-instead-relies-on-links-that-open-in-the-browser
@julian it's complicated, isn't it. I was focusing on the narrower case of one app calling a default (or system dialog to choose) app to handle the post, rather than even necessarily involving the browser. But could one solution (somewhere in that veritably long-ass thread) serve the whole matrix of calling web->web, web->app, app->app, and app->web?
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@julian it's complicated, isn't it. I was focusing on the narrower case of one app calling a default (or system dialog to choose) app to handle the post, rather than even necessarily involving the browser. But could one solution (somewhere in that veritably long-ass thread) serve the whole matrix of calling web->web, web->app, app->app, and app->web?
@travisfw@fosstodon.org I don't blame you for not reading through the whole thread.
Suffice to say I think there is merit in using
web+ap://scheme at the browser (and possibly app) level.PWAs can register themselves as a handler of those types (
web+), and on the web side there are tricks to allow for the opening of them in the PWA or falling back to browser https.It's worth experimentation, I think.
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@travisfw@fosstodon.org I don't blame you for not reading through the whole thread.
Suffice to say I think there is merit in using
web+ap://scheme at the browser (and possibly app) level.PWAs can register themselves as a handler of those types (
web+), and on the web side there are tricks to allow for the opening of them in the PWA or falling back to browser https.It's worth experimentation, I think.
@julian I really tried. Maybe should have reached for AI. I'll look into that web+ap:// scheme, thank you!
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#FediDev is there a generic Android intent for sharing to the Fediverse?
There is the Web Share API, and the future Web Share Targets API, but I think we could also align Web Share with FedCM and be able to say "I want to share to this type of application"
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