Cascades Development

[codespy]

Hi

Is there any posibility to redirect from webbrowser to application written in Casacedes as it is in android?

In android I can register intent-filer in activity

<intent-filter >
     <action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
     <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
     <category android:name="android.intent.category.BROWSABLE" />
     <data android:scheme="myapp" />
</intent-filter>

 and application can be run from webbrowser.

In BlackBerry I try the same using Invocation framework.

I tried

<invoke-target id="myapp">
  <invoke-target-type>application</invoke-target-type>
  <invoke-target-name>MyApp</invoke-target-name>
  <icon>
     <image>icon.png</image>
  </icon>	  
</invoke-target>

 and

<invoke-target id="myapp">
  <invoke-target-type>application</invoke-target-type>
  <invoke-target-name>MyApp</invoke-target-name>
  <icon>
    <image>icon.png</image>
  </icon>
  <filter>
    <action>bb.action.VIEW</action>
    <action>bb.action.OPEN</action>
    <mime-type>*</mime-type>
    <property var="uris" value="myapp:"/>
  </filter>
</invoke-target>

 and this is not working.

If anyone has any ideas?

[kylefowler]

your uri probably needs to be value="myapp://"

[codespy]

value="myapp://"

It doesn't work.

[borceg]

Correct me if I'm wrong - you want to start your app from browser right ?

[codespy]

"Correct me if I'm wrong - you want to start your app from browser right ?"

Yes. It is posible on BlackBerry 10 ?

[javayoung]

May you have a try to change the id to a unique id and keep the format as "xxx.xxx.xxx"?

You also need to implement a code for queryTargets

invoke-target id="myapp"

[codespy]

I tried with "xxx.xxx.xxx" format

and 

I have somethink like that:

bb::system::InvokeManager invokeManager;
    QObject::connect(&invokeManager,
            SIGNAL(invoked(const bb::system::InvokeRequest&)),
            &app,
            SLOT(onInvoke(const bb::system::InvokeRequest&)));

[shaque]

Hello,

There are two things involved here. 

1. Being able to invoke your app based on a custom URI. This is possible via the invocation framework.

2. The browser must make your custom uri a hyperlink. This requires that the String Pattern service of BB10 recognize your uri pattern and hyperlink it. Unfortunately it is not possible for 3rd party apps to register string patterns in the system today but we are definitely looking in to it.

So the short answer is, what you are trying to accomplish is not possible today.

The closest you can get is have the user download a file with a custom extension that your app supports and once downloaded, the user can open that file and have your app invoked.

Shadid