native.showPopup("mail") - way to force equiv of showActivityWithChooser()?

This is probably a shot in the dark, unless engineering staff reads it, but I’ll try anyway…

native.showPopup() currently appears to do the equivalent of context.startActivity(intent).  (maybe that’s exactly what it does, maybe not, doesn’t matter, seems functionally similar in either case)

so that if user had at some prior time set the default for that action then the appropriate app is launched (presumably some email client), else you get the open-with-just-once-always chooser.  fine and good, if that’s all you want.

but, what about G+ or other possible destinations?  don’t get a chooser, so can’t do.

so, am wondering if there’s a way to instead do the equivalent of showActivityWithChooser(context,"",intent)

where the list of potential candidate apps is always displayed (without the just-once-always buttons)

i’ve tested the functionality in concept, by simply clearing the existing default, so the just-once-always chooser appears, and targeting the email to other apps DOES work already *iff* i get the chance to choose them.

so, finally, any chance there’s either an undocumented 1) way to mangle the first “mail” param of showPopup(), or 2) third parameter to showPopup(), or 3) property of the options, or 4) some system-level setting, or 5) something else, whatever?, … that can alter this behavior from (the equivalent of) startActivity() to showActivityWithChooser()?

thx

I don’t know if this is doable or not, but I do know that iOS 8 has Engineering more than maxed out right now.  Can you bump this in a few weeks once we are passed this iOS 8 stress point?

Thanks

Rob

how about now, or still too soon?  bump, just for further consideration?

(or maybe it could give your android guys something to do if iOS guys still swamped :D)

Engineering says this is reasonable, but it’s a feature request.  Please create one at http://feedback.coronalabs.com and post the link back here when you’re done.

Rob

Thanks Rob, feature request created here:

http://feedback.coronalabs.com/forums/188732-corona-sdk-feature-requests-feedback/suggestions/6592652–android-allow-native-showpopup-mail-to-force

I don’t know if this is doable or not, but I do know that iOS 8 has Engineering more than maxed out right now.  Can you bump this in a few weeks once we are passed this iOS 8 stress point?

Thanks

Rob

how about now, or still too soon?  bump, just for further consideration?

(or maybe it could give your android guys something to do if iOS guys still swamped :D)

Engineering says this is reasonable, but it’s a feature request.  Please create one at http://feedback.coronalabs.com and post the link back here when you’re done.

Rob

Thanks Rob, feature request created here:

http://feedback.coronalabs.com/forums/188732-corona-sdk-feature-requests-feedback/suggestions/6592652–android-allow-native-showpopup-mail-to-force