WebIntents: Some discussions

[Friedger Müffke]

I think everyone should have a chance to try these out

Some comments for the agent:
- The welcome page should have a title and a description how to use web intents
- In the welcome page, the service registration should be first, then
the intents invocations
- The app crashes when calling the app management (having 5
applications pending) on a phone the first time, after starting the
sample app it worked.
- The menu "App management" should not contain "5 apps pending"
- Some visual feedback when a web app has been recognized (toast or
notification) would be good.
- Some animation when openining a new web page so people understand
how to come back to previous page
- Back button could be the same as the back arrow on the top (to be discuss)
- If no apps are available the dialog should behave in the same way as
the standard createChooser
- The app management should not show removed apps as new found or even
better visited apps
- In app management, when viewing an app there should be a plus/delete
button to add/remove it to/from my apps.
- In app management, the selection mode should be enabled already when
showing the activity, because the user came here to manage the apps,
maybe checkboxes are better
- Instead of delete icon there should be "-" or something similar

Some comments on the sample and library for Android apps:
- The dialog should be created in the same context/app, not in the web
agent activity, because the launched activity returns to the web agent
activity, not to the launching app
- The dialog shows web apps that I haven't registered, i.e. are still pending.

General:
- If you have copied the web page to the www assets please make a
short header indicating that this is a local copy of the
webintents.org page, using something like
https://github.com/neofoniemobile/Crouton

Cheers
Friedger

2012/8/7 Cheng Zheng :
> Attached are the two apk files. Please let me know if there is any problem.
>
> Thanks for all your comments. I will think about them carefully and get back
> to you asap
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Friedger Müffke wrote:
>>
>> Could you please send me both APKs as I am not able to compile the
>> code right now (due to my hardware).
>>
>> - I would like to see the WebIntents Agent App to have its own logo,
>> maybe just the OI logo, but that could be part of the documentation.
>> - the sample app should be in its own folder next to the agent app
>> - createChooserWithWebActivities should create a chooser dialog, not
>> launch the activity (which just shows a dialog)
>> - the class comments should be more useful, e.g. WebIntentsHelper:
>> Helper class to show web apps in the chooser dialog when starting an
>> activity through intents.
>> Developers of Android apps should use createChooserWithWebActivities
>> instead of createChooser
>> This class delegates the creation of the dialog to
>> WebIntentsHelperActivity.
>>
>> Comments that just repeats the name of the class is not necessary. I
>> know that OpenIntents has no guidelines on this.
>>
>> - The code structure could be improved. There is a lot of database
>> logic in the widget folder, widget should only contain visual stuff. I
>> had problems to find the code where the web apps HTML code is parsed.
>> - How do you handle text/* in the provider tables/queries?
>> - Some kind of magic mime-type matching would be nice as well for the
>> text/uri-list to text/plain for sharing
>>
>> Overall, I think you created a working app testing with single use
>> case "share". Do you think it will extend to PICK or EDIT? What would
>> be required to make it work.
>>
>>
>> BTW, in the first WebIntents hangout, they mentioned OpenIntents as
>> one possible provider of a web intents registry :-) So, we should
>> continue documenting our effort and complete the list of matching
>> actions in http://www.openintents.org/en/intentsbigtable
>>
>> Cheers
>> Friedger
>>
>>

[Cheng Zheng]

Hi Friedger,

Attached are apk files of the latest version. I made some updates.

1. Use new logo

2. The external Android app who call createChooserWithWebActivities will create a dialog in its own context instead of the former empty activity

3. Notification messages are added when new Web apps are found

4. Enter the Contextual Action mode directly when the user click application management and I also added checkboxes for them. One question is do you think when should let the user enter contextual action mode or just use action bar items for app management? Personally I like contextual action mode because I think it works better on small screen devices.

5. The bug of crash when entering the application management interface should be removed, you can test it.

Updates on other comments will follow up sooner. Please let me know if you have new comments.

Thanks

Cheng

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