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The idea of having cover actions for android apps keeps popping up in my head. So i decided to poke around a bit and see if it might be possible. It seems that android apps accept events, called intents, and those are afaik published in the manifest for each app.

So i suggest that android apps get options to add right and left cover actions via the settings menu, and the user can choose from any of the published intents. Possibly the default icon set might be enough choice for identification.. but in the grand scheme of things i think icons are a secondary issue.

However, i can't figure out how to trigger intents from the outside. I bet the jolla crew might have more success. Found a good post on the subject, but they got pretty much as far as i did. See: https://together.jolla.com/question/38863/how-do-i-trigger-an-android-intent-from-outside-alien-dalvik/

What do you think? :)

The idea of having cover actions for android apps keeps popping up in my head. So i decided to poke around a bit and see if it might be possible. It seems that android apps accept events, called intents, and those are afaik published in the manifest for each app.

So i suggest that android apps get options to add right and left cover actions via the settings menu, and the user can choose from any of the published intents. Possibly the default icon set might be enough choice for identification.. but in the grand scheme of things i think icons are a secondary issue.

However, i can't figure out how to trigger intents from the outside. I bet the jolla crew might have more success. Found a good post on the subject, but they got pretty much as far as i did. See: https://together.jolla.com/question/38863/how-do-i-trigger-an-android-intent-from-outside-alien-dalvik/

What do you think? :)

The idea of having cover actions for android apps keeps popping up in my head. So i decided to poke around a bit and see if it might be possible. It seems that android apps accept events, called intents, and those are afaik published in the manifest for each app.

So i suggest that android apps get options to add right and left cover actions via the settings menu, and the user can choose from any of the published intents. Possibly the default icon set might be enough choice for identification.. but in the grand scheme of things i think icons are a secondary issue.

However, i can't figure out how to trigger intents from the outside. I bet the jolla crew might have more success. Found a good post on the subject, but they got pretty much as far as i did. See: https://together.jolla.com/question/38863/how-do-i-trigger-an-android-intent-from-outside-alien-dalvik/

What do you think? :)

The idea of having cover actions for android apps keeps popping up in my head. So i decided to poke around a bit and see if it might be possible. It seems that android apps accept events, called intents, and those are afaik published in the manifest for each app.

So i suggest that android apps get options to add right and left cover actions via the settings menu, and the user can choose from any of the published intents. Possibly the default icon set might be enough choice for identification.. but in the grand scheme of things i think icons are a secondary issue.

However, i can't figure out how to trigger intents from the outside. I bet the jolla crew might have more success. Found a good post on the subject, but they got pretty much as far as i did. See: https://together.jolla.com/question/38863/how-do-i-trigger-an-android-intent-from-outside-alien-dalvik/

UPDATE: I forgot to add that I figured out how to trigger intents from the outside, see the linked question or https://github.com/attah/alien-tools (Note: outdated since alien dalvik moved to a chroot) and this awesome stuff by CODeRUS https://github.com/CODeRUS/aliendalvik-control

What do you think? :)