#FediDev is there a generic Android intent for sharing to the Fediverse?

[travisfw@fosstodon.org]

#FediDev is there a generic Android intent for sharing to the Fediverse?

[julian@activitypub.space]

@travisfw@fosstodon.org short answer: no

Slightly longer answer: not yet

Long-ass thread: https://activitypub.space/topic/e00a0fd8-31d2-494e-bd8a-31eedcd16ac2/it-s-really-surprising-to-me-that-the-fediverse-hasn-t-agreed-on-a-standardized-way-to-open-cross-instance-activitypub-objects-and-instead-relies-on-links-that-open-in-the-browser

[travisfw@fosstodon.org]

@julian it's complicated, isn't it. I was focusing on the narrower case of one app calling a default (or system dialog to choose) app to handle the post, rather than even necessarily involving the browser. But could one solution (somewhere in that veritably long-ass thread) serve the whole matrix of calling web->web, web->app, app->app, and app->web?

[julian@activitypub.space]

@travisfw@fosstodon.org I don't blame you for not reading through the whole thread.

Suffice to say I think there is merit in using web+ap:// scheme at the browser (and possibly app) level.

PWAs can register themselves as a handler of those types (web+), and on the web side there are tricks to allow for the opening of them in the PWA or falling back to browser https.

It's worth experimentation, I think.

[travisfw@fosstodon.org]

@julian I really tried. Maybe should have reached for AI. I'll look into that web+ap:// scheme, thank you!

[thisismissem@activitypub.space]

There is the Web Share API, and the future Web Share Targets API, but I think we could also align Web Share with FedCM and be able to say "I want to share to this type of application"