UPDATE: Please use 3651
since 3650 had issues with Google License Checking
Android API level 30
Android introduced breaking change in Android 11 (api 30) which we are now targeting). Major change affecting system.canOpenURL() call. It now requires to list all schemes you’ll use in the build.setting (AndroidManifest.xml).
Hovewer, due to quicks with Android implementation, even listing scheme sometimes gives the wrong result (for example, if user chose to always use the App to open https://twitter.com links, the query for this URL would return false if no special <query> element is added. Confusing, indeed.
Current recommendation is use openURL instead o canOpenURL. It will always return reliable result, if URL was handled.
For example, consider following code:
local mapURL = "https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hello,+Solar2D!@" .. currentLatitude .. "," .. currentLongitude
if system.canOpenURL( mapURL ) then
-- Show location on map
system.openURL( mapURL )
else
native.showAlert( "Alert", "No browser found to show location on map!", { "OK" } )
end
Is better written as
local mapURL = "https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hello,+Solar2D!@" .. currentLatitude .. "," .. currentLongitude
if not system.openURL( mapURL ) then
native.showAlert( "Alert", "No browser found to show location on map!", { "OK" } )
end
Latter code would work realiably without need to add any manifest entries via build.settings.
Example entries
If you do want to query if some app can handle URL, here are some code examples for your build.settings:
settings =
{
android =
{
manifestChildElements =
{
[[
<queries>
<package android:name="com.facebook.katana" />
<package android:name="com.instagram.android" />
<intent>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.VIEW" />
<data android:scheme="http" />
</intent>
</queries>
]],
},
},
}
Read more about following change at the android developers blog.
Download first release: https://github.com/coronalabs/corona/releases/tag/3651
but I would necessarily need a solution that allows me to open pdf from any third-party app.