Can I share to my NativeScript app?

Question

Is it possible in current state of NativeScript to create an app which listens for share intents on Android?

What I would like to achieve is for example having a website opened in my web browser on Android, tap on share and see my NativeScript app on the list of share targets.

I did accomplish this on a native Android app but can't get it to work in a NativeScript app. I've messed with the AndroidManifest.xml to add

<action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND"></action>
<category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"></category>

into intent-filter but this did not help. My app does not show up in the list of share targets.

Answer 1

I've been searching for a solution to this question myself and found all of the others answers here very helpful.

Yet, I'm a noob (only two days in) for NativeScript and couldn't actually get where and how to implement all the code bits together to work.

By using the answers here I could continue my search and found a finished GITHUB EXAMPLE: NickIliev/nativescript-receiving-shared-content

For other freshmen (or freshwoman) looking for a finished example go to the repo and explore the code in /demo/app/ directory. It was helpful for me and I'll hope it will help you too.