Web Intent

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This Plugin provides a general purpose shim layer for the Android intent mechanism, exposing various ways to handle sending and receiving intents.

Repo: https://github.com/darryncampbell/darryncampbell-cordova-plugin-intent

Installation

1. Install the Cordova and Ionic Native plugins:
   

   $ ionic cordova plugin add com-darryncampbell-cordova-plugin-intent
   $ npm install --save @ionic-native/web-intent
   

2. Add this plugin to your app's module

Supported platforms

• Android

Usage

For usage information please refer to the plugin's Github repo.

import { WebIntent } from '@ionic-native/web-intent';

constructor(private webIntent: WebIntent) { }

...

const options = {
  action: this.webIntent.ACTION_VIEW,
  url: 'path/to/file',
  type: 'application/vnd.android.package-archive'
};

this.webIntent.startActivity(options).then(onSuccess, onError);

Instance Members

ACTION_SEND

Convenience constant for actions

ACTION_VIEW

Convenience constant for actions

EXTRA_TEXT

Convenience constant for extras

EXTRA_SUBJECT

Convenience constant for extras

EXTRA_STREAM

Convenience constant for extras

EXTRA_EMAIL

Convenience constant for extras

ACTION_CALL

Convenience constant for actions

ACTION_SENDTO

Convenience constant for actions

ACTION_GET_CONTENT

Convenience constant for actions

ACTION_PICK

Convenience constant for actions

startActivity(options)

Launches an Android intent

startActivityForResult(options)

Starts a new activity and return the result to the application

hasExtra(extra)

Checks if this app was invoked with specified extra

getExtra(extra)

Gets the extra that this app was invoked with

getUri()

Gets the Uri the app was invoked with

onIntent()

Returns the content of the intent used whenever the application activity is launched

sendBroadcast(options)

Sends a custom intent passing optional extras

startService(options)

Request that a given application service be started

registerBroadcastReceiver(filters)

Registers a broadcast receiver for the specified filters

unregisterBroadcastReceiver()

Unregisters a broadcast receiver

getIntent()