How do I handle sharing/downlaods? #230

JKDos · 2022-02-17T20:29:09Z

JKDos
Feb 17, 2022

In a webview app, if I have an image, how can I download it to the user's phone or open the share menu for them to share on social media?

I am using these permissions, but not able to download

 	       "android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE",
		"android.permission.WRITE_MEDIA_STORAGE",
		"android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"

Answered by Chhekur

Downloading Image
In order to download image what you can do is you can get the public URL of image and send that to back process over IPC and there you can the image from the received URL and can use FS module to save that in user's phone.
Share on social media
You can create social media sharing dialog in HTML itself or React and can read from user's device using FS and share.

Chhekur · 2022-02-18T17:08:08Z

Downloading Image
In order to download image what you can do is you can get the public URL of image and send that to back process over IPC and there you can the image from the received URL and can use FS module to save that in user's phone.
Share on social media
You can create social media sharing dialog in HTML itself or React and can read from user's device using FS and share.

2 replies

Thanks. I actually didn't know there was sharing API in Javascript/HTML. That's great!

navigator.share appears to be undefined. I assume it's unsupported for now.