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This is an incredible application, very cool. Hope all iOS developers begin working together to make the iOS app space more powerful than ever. Are you guys pla

by somid3 13y ago

This is an incredible application, very cool. Hope all iOS developers begin working together to make the iOS app space more powerful than ever. Are you guys planning to expand to the Android space? -- It is just as fragmented when it comes to inter app file sharing. Wish you guys the best!

brettcvz 13y ago
Definitely! Let us know which apps you'd like us to work with. Android has been a discussion for us - it has Intents, so at least there is a baseline for doing inter-app communication, but it's still not as good as it could be.
- somid3 13y ago
  Well, android is soooo fragmented, between os versions and their api that its a bit embarrassing. I am sure once you guys kill in the iOS space, Android will be an easy conquest. Congrats again!
krschultz 13y ago
I don't think it's necessary on Android. I started out using the original Filepicker.io library (and actually tried to improve it a bit: https://github.com/Ink/filepicker-android/graphs/contributors https://github.com/Ink/filepicker-android/graphs/contributor...), but had better results using native Intents. In my case I had to build a system where it pulls from particular services (Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Gallery, etc) or takes a picture from the camera. That is pretty straightforward with intents and you can either show every available app or specify exactly what other apps to allow. Also, we added an intent receiver so any app can share into ours. I have tested it across about 20 devices and have had 0 issues with the inter-app intents. The camera took more work but there are lots of libraries out there to solve the problems (mainly: where to store the file generated by the camera cleanly in all cases). Gallery also causes some issues because various vendors have re-implemented the gallery in non-standard ways, and remote URLs for Picassa or Google+ need to be dealt with, but it's not too bad. If you are writing good quality code, fragmentation is completely overblown.

by somid3 13y ago

brettcvz 13y ago

Definitely! Let us know which apps you'd like us to work with. Android has been a discussion for us - it has Intents, so at least there is a baseline for doing inter-app communication, but it's still not as good as it could be.

somid3 13y ago
Well, android is soooo fragmented, between os versions and their api that its a bit embarrassing. I am sure once you guys kill in the iOS space, Android will be an easy conquest. Congrats again!

krschultz 13y ago

I don't think it's necessary on Android. I started out using the original Filepicker.io library (and actually tried to improve it a bit: https://github.com/Ink/filepicker-android/graphs/contributors https://github.com/Ink/filepicker-android/graphs/contributor...), but had better results using native Intents. In my case I had to build a system where it pulls from particular services (Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Gallery, etc) or takes a picture from the camera. That is pretty straightforward with intents and you can either show every available app or specify exactly what other apps to allow. Also, we added an intent receiver so any app can share into ours. I have tested it across about 20 devices and have had 0 issues with the inter-app intents. The camera took more work but there are lots of libraries out there to solve the problems (mainly: where to store the file generated by the camera cleanly in all cases). Gallery also causes some issues because various vendors have re-implemented the gallery in non-standard ways, and remote URLs for Picassa or Google+ need to be dealt with, but it's not too bad. If you are writing good quality code, fragmentation is completely overblown.