Nativescript: [FEATURE] onNewIntent event listener

Created on 17 Sep 2016 · 9Comments · Source: NativeScript/NativeScript

_From @roblav96 on September 17, 2016 1:59_

I'm not too sure how hard it would be to implement, but having a onNewIntent event would be awesome.

I'm trying to make a custom url plugin but in order for it to work properly I need to set android:launchMode="singleTask" on the com.tns.NativeScriptActivity in AndroidManifest.xml because if I don't, then the intent launches a whole new instance of my app on top of the already existing one.

I tried this with every android event available:

application.android.on(application.AndroidApplication.activityResumedEvent, function(args: application.AndroidActivityEventData) {
    global.tnsconsole.info('application.AndroidApplication.activityResumedEvent >')
    let intent: android.content.Intent = args.activity.getIntent()
    global.tnsconsole.log('intent.getData()', intent.getData())
    global.tnsconsole.log('intent.getDataString()', intent.getDataString())
    global.tnsconsole.log('intent.getScheme()', intent.getScheme())
    global.tnsconsole.log('intent.getExtras()', intent.getExtras())
})

and they all come up empty.

According to EddyVerbruggen/Custom-URL-scheme, he calls onNewIntent which is exactely what I'm looking to do. I also tried making my custom activity and overwriting the event, but it doesn't exist in ui/frame/AndroidActivityCallbacks.

This addition would be greatly appreciated!

_Copied from original issue: NativeScript/android-runtime#558_

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petekanev

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I'd like to give this feature a go, though I won't be able to do it until mid of October. Any first-timers willing to try?

petekanev on 1 Oct 2018

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This is how you do it:

import * as application from "application"
import * as frame from "ui/frame"


@JavaProxy('com.tns.NativeScriptActivity')
class Activity extends android.app.Activity {

    private _callbacks: frame.AndroidActivityCallbacks

    onCreate(savedInstanceState: android.os.Bundle): void {
        if (!this._callbacks) {
            (<any>frame).setActivityCallbacks(this)
        }
        this._callbacks.onCreate(this, savedInstanceState, super.onCreate)
    }

    onNewIntent(intent: android.content.Intent): void {
        console.info('onNewIntent', intent)
        super.onNewIntent(intent)
    }
}

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roblav96 on 17 Sep 2016

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@roblav96 can you show me that code in .js?

tioago on 27 Jul 2017

Nevermind, i use a site to do that and it seems to work ok. Thanks.

tioago on 27 Jul 2017

I'm bringing a Cordova App over to NativeScript and I pretty much need to be able to handle open from URL while the app is already running in the background.

roblav's technique above doesn't work, it appears to override some needed functionality in NativeScriptActivity, so seems like I'm stuck unless I can get access to onNewIntent() somehow.