On 06/16/2014 03:24 AM, Athanasios Anastasiou wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> Is there a best practice way of retrieving a QR-code from another firefox OS
> app?
>
> Android uses intents and it is possible to launch a specific QR-Reader or let
> the user select from the installed apps that can handle this sort of activity.
>
> I was happy to spot the Firefox OS - Web Activities API, but they are
> 'ring-fenced' :( and the allowed ones do not include QR-code reading.
What do you mean by 'ring-fenced'? Any app can implement its own
activities, and expose them to any other app. We don't whitelist anything.
> Is there a way to query installed applications for the ones that can handle
> QR reading? There are quite a few of them on the marketplace but none
> actively advertises its ability as an activity handler. (Is there one that
> does?)
No. The whole point of activities is to not have such a strong coupling.
> Finally, since firefoxOS apps can be installed as stand-alone(ish) on
> Android, can i use an Android intent's URI to launch an Android Intent and
> retrieve its result within my code from firefox OS?
I don't think our intent <-> activities support on android allows that
yet, but I may be wrong.
Fabrice
--
Fabrice Desré
b2g team
Mozilla Corporation
_______________________________________________
dev-webapps mailing list
dev-webapps@lists.mozilla.org
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-webapps
