Android Question Sending text between two apps

MikeH

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• Oct 29, 2016

• #2

One way is to put the text into the copy buffer from app 1 and read it from app 2

 

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apty

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• Oct 29, 2016

• #3

Please assist with some code. Please

 

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MikeH

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• Oct 29, 2016

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https://www.b4x.com/android/help/clipboard.html

 

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apty

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• Oct 29, 2016

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Thanks a lot. That works very well. I wish i could also pass non text e.g image

 

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DonManfred

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• Oct 29, 2016

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https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/sharing-files-from-your-app-with-file-provider.70458/

 

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Erel

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• Oct 30, 2016

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You can also use the intent itself to send more data.

B4X:

Dim in As Intent
in.Initialize(in.ACTION_MAIN, "")
in.SetComponent("...")
in.PutExtra("name", "myname")
StartActivity(in)

You can use Activity.GetStartingIntent to get the intent that caused the activity to start and then fetch the values.

(make sure to check that the intent is new: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/t...intent-be-reset-or-cleared.38004/#post-224814 )

 

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apty

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• Oct 30, 2016

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Thanks a lot Erel and DonManfred. What i wanted to do is pass some text and image from app one to app two. I have managed to pass the text. Now in app one i have an image in an image view, i wanted to pass that to an imageview in app two through an intent.
I am thinking i should pass the image as bytes (through clipboard maybe) and convert the bytes back in app two in to an image..Is there a better way of doing this?

 

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JakeBullet70

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• Oct 31, 2016

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Just create a shared folder and copy it there. Send your text to the other app and that can read and delete when done

 

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