App interoperability the Sailfish way. What is the way to share between apps (UI and API wise)?
Simplest use case: You are using Tweetian or Friends and want to save a link to some read-it-later service, or share to a not built-in social network (Russian VKontakte or Chinese Weibo) or even to a built-in app such as Messaging or Email. Or you implement a whatsapp client and want to send photos from both local hardrive and dropbox/box/picasa/whatever-the-user-has.
To my understanding right now all of these use cases are simply not possible (except for starting email/sms with a given text via openUrlExternally).
What are the Sailfish longer term plans regarding it?
- Android-like intents to provide whichever service to whichever clients + few standard intents?
- iOS-like hard coded intents to the known applications that support it?
- Something Linux standard?
+1 Such a function (similar to Android rather than iOS) is needed.
andreibechet ( 2014-05-12 18:36:39 +0200 )edit