[Edward]

Hi,

how would I go about creating an button within my application which launches another application on my phone?

Whilst my app is running I would also like there to be a floating button overlaying on the screen so I can tap it to easily re-open my application without having to navigate home screen?

Permissions would naturally need to be granted?

 

What are my options for this?

 

Thanks,
Edward

 

 

 

 

 

[GüntherFelgo Team]

Hi Edward!

The Felgo NativeUtils offer access to the most important native device features like dialogs, sharing, camera/gallery picker and nativeUtils.openApp, which you can use to open another app. On iOS, applications must explicitly allow to be opened using a certain URL scheme, which you can pass to openApp. Android requires you to pass the bundle id of the app.

For more complex native features like a floating action button or other Widgets that integrate with your device while your app is installed/running, you can fully extend your Felgo App with native code to e.g. add Android Features with Java or iOS Features with Obj-C.

This is possible by adding C++ components to your QML-based Felgo app. Your C++ code can then e.g. call native Java functions via JNI.

Hope this helps!

Best,
Günther