Inter-Process Communication

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I am learning both Corona and mobile dev.

I need to pass data from one app to another (where I will be writing both apps).

As far as I can tell, the only way to do this is by having the “client” app use a custom URL to launch the “server” app (which has registered the URL handler).

And, the URL could contain perhaps an explicit PATH into to the client’s sandbox (will this work?); or, the URL could contain a random TCP port that the client will use.

Will I be able to write such apps with Corona? Client only? None?

Is there a simple way to solve this on both iPhone and Android?

Thanks in advance. [import]uid: 10817 topic_id: 5959 reply_id: 305959[/import]

#2

Clarification of my question:

This article explains URL-based IPC on iPhone:

http://blog.innerfence.com/2009/01/05/2-way-app-integration-on-the-iphone-how-it-works/

Relative to this article, my question is:

Can a Corona app register such a handler and can it parse the URL params that are sent? such as in this launch call:

my_custom_url://my_path/1.0.0/?someparam=123&returnURL=my-return-url%3A%2F%2F%3Frecord_id%3D123 [import]uid: 10817 topic_id: 5959 reply_id: 20445[/import]