This Cordova plugin has major modifications from @nchutchind version. Please use his version. Simple Cordova plugin to see if other apps are installed and launch them. This is a fork of Nicholas Hutchind's cordova-plugin-app-launcher. This fork has been greatly modified to launch an android aar library activity. Also extensive custom modification for IOS to launch ARCGIS map service.
This plugin will launch an android app or an activity in an embeded aar library. For IOS this app is customized to open to open an arcgis map for navigation.
$ cordova plugin add https://github.com/jaybowman/cordova-plugin-app-launcher.git
and then (this step will modify your project):
$ cordova prepare
1. Add the following xml to your config.xml:
<!-- for iOS -->
<feature name="Launcher">
<param name="ios-package" value="Launcher" />
</feature>
<!--
Additionally, for iOS 9+, you may need to install the cordova-plugin-queries-schemes plugin, which will allow whitelisting of what URLs your app will be allowed to launch.
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-queries-schemes
--><!-- for Android -->
<feature name="Launcher">
<param name="android-package" value="com.hutchind.cordova.plugins.launcher.Launcher" />
</feature>2. Add www/Launcher.js to your project and reference it in index.html:
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/Launcher.js"></script>3. iOS: After the plugin is installed you will get a pod install error. You need to update the podfile and change the ios platform to 12.2 or greater. Then from the platforms/ios folder run pod install.
// Default handlers
var successCallback = function(data) {
alert("Success!");
// if calling canLaunch() with getAppList:true, data will contain an array named "appList" with the package names of applications that can handle the uri specified.
};
var errorCallback = function(errMsg) {
alert("Error! " + errMsg);
}AndroidManifest.xml:
<activity
android:name="org.peekvision.lite.android.visualacuity.VisualAcuityActivity">
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="org.peekvision.intent.action.TEST_ACUITY"/>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
</intent-filter>
</activity>Typescript:
let actionName = 'org.peekvision.intent.action.TEST_ACUITY';
window["plugins"].launcher.canLaunch({actionName: actionName},
data => console.log("Peek Acuity can be launched"),
errMsg => console.log("Peek Acuity not installed! " + errMsg)
);Launch Peek Acuity via an Action Name with Extras and return results (Android)
let actionName = 'org.peekvision.intent.action.TEST_ACUITY';
let extras = [
{"name":"progressionLogMarArray", "value":[1.0,0.8,0.6,0.3,0.1],"dataType":"DoubleArray"},
{"name":"instructions", "value":"none", "dataType":"String"},
{"name":"eye", "value":"left", "dataType":"String"},
{"name":"beyondOpto", "value":true, "dataType":"Boolean"},
{"name":"testDistance", "value":"4m", "dataType":"String"},
{"name":"displayResult", "value":false, "dataType":"Boolean"},
{"name":"return_result", "value":true, "dataType":"Boolean"}
];
window["plugins"].launcher.launch({actionName: actionName, extras: extras},
json => {
if (json.isActivityDone) {
if (json.data) {
console.log("data=" + json.data);
}
if (json.extras) {
if (json.extras.logMar) {
console.log("logMar=" + json.extras.logMar);
}
if (json.extras.averageLux) {
console.log("averageLux=" + json.extras.averageLux);
}
} else {
console.log("Peek Acuity done but no results");
}
} else {
console.log("Peek Acuity launched");
}
},
errMsg => console.log("Peek Acuity error launching: " + errMsg)
);Most datatypes that can be put into an Android Bundle are able to be passed in. You must provide the datatype to convert to. Only Uri Parcelables are supported currently.
extras: [
{"name":"myByte", "value":1, "dataType":"Byte"},
{"name":"myByteArray", "value":[1,0,2,3], "dataType":"ByteArray"},
{"name":"myShort", "value":5, "dataType":"Short"},
{"name":"myShortArray", "value":[1,2,3,4], "dataType":"ShortArray"},
{"name":"myInt", "value":2000, "dataType":"Int"},
{"name":"myIntArray", "value":[12,34,56], "dataType":"IntArray"},
{"name":"myIntArrayList", "value":[123,456,789], "dataType":"IntArrayList"},
{"name":"myLong", "value":123456789101112, "dataType":"Long"},
{"name":"myLongArray", "value":[123456789101112,121110987654321], "dataType":"LongArray"},
{"name":"myFloat", "value":12.34, "dataType":"Float"},
{"name":"myFloatArray", "value":[12.34,56.78], "dataType":"FloatArray"},
{"name":"myDouble", "value":12.3456789, "dataType":"Double"},
{"name":"myDoubleArray", "value":[12.3456789, 98.7654321], "dataType":"DoubleArray"},
{"name":"myBoolean", "value":false, "dataType":"Boolean"},
{"name":"myBooleanArray", "value":[true,false,true], "dataType":"BooleanArray"},
{"name":"myString", "value":"this is a test", "dataType":"String"},
{"name":"myStringArray", "value":["this","is", "a", "test"], "dataType":"StringArray"},
{"name":"myStringArrayList", "value":["this","is","a","test"], "dataType":"StringArrayList"},
{"name":"myChar", "value":"T", "dataType":"Char"},
{"name":"myCharArray", "value":"this is a test", "dataType":"CharArray"},
{"name":"myCharSequence", "value":"this is a test", "dataType":"CharSequence"},
{"name":"myCharSequenceArray", "value":["this","is a", "test"], "dataType":"CharSequenceArray"},
{"name":"myCharSequenceArrayList", "value":["this","is a", "test"], "dataType":"CharSequenceArrayList"},
{"name":"myParcelable", "value":"http://foo", "dataType":"Parcelable", "paType":"Uri"},
{"name":"myParcelableArray", "value":["http://foo","http://bar"], "dataType":"ParcelableArray", "paType":"Uri"},
{"name":"myParcelableArrayList", "value":["http://foo","http://bar"], "dataType":"ParcelableArrayList", "paType":"Uri"},
{"name":"mySparseParcelableArray", "value":{"10":"http://foo", "-25":"http://bar"}, "dataType":"SparseParcelableArray", "paType":"Uri"},
]No data is passed.
Passes a string containing an error message.
Passes a JSON object with varying parts.
Activity launched
{
isLaunched: true
}Activity finished
{
isActivityDone: true
}Activity launched and data returned
{
isActivityDone: true,
data: <Uri returned from Activity, if any>,
extras <JSON object containing data returned from Activity, if any>
}Passes an error message as a string.
0.4.1: Android: Add the ability to call internal activity with intent embeded in aar file. IOS code is removed and custome code added to open arcgis map.
0.4.0: Android: Added ability to launch with intent. Thanks to [@mmey3k] for the code.
0.2.0: Android: Added ability to launch activity with extras and receive data back from launched app when it is finished.
0.1.2: Added ability to check if any apps are installed that can handle a certain datatype on Android.
0.1.1: Added ability to launch a package with a data uri and datatype on Android.
0.1.0: initial version supporting Android and iOS
Thank to @nchutchind the author of the original github repo. Special thanks to @michael1t for sponsoring the development of the Extras portion of this plugin.
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