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Android Share Hook

Spooky 11 years ago updated 11 years ago 2

Ever so often I browse websites, YouTube videos or other things on my Android Tablet or Android Phone and at some point I want to "share" something to the TV. It would be great if Ampdroid actually registers as a share hook in the Android system (android.intent.action.SEND or whatever) and MpExtended reacts accordingly to those commands, if supported.


For instance, you browse YouTube Videos with the YouTube App on your Android Device, then you hit the share button, select "MediaPortal" (or whatever the share entry is called then) and the implementation from aMPdroid sends a specific command (defined by MpExtended's interface) so that the YouTube video will be opened in MediaPortal (within the OnlineVideos plugin for instance). Or you do the same on a webpage and the browser opens. Or you share an UNC path (from an Android file browser app) pointing to a video and MediaPortal will play that video.


Though I suppose this may overextend the intended functionality of MpExtended and other plugins also need to work together with MpExtended then.



But this would be so great... specifically getting a YouTube video onto the TV via MediaPortal is a ****ing pain right now, if you solely do it via the OnlineVideos plugin ;). The search function is really cumbersome and generally doesn't find everything that the regular YouTube Apps or the website would find.


Easily sharing things with to your TV, just as Google originally intended with its Nexus 7 + Nexus Q concept, would be great.

Yes, that is something that I plan to add in the future...