Nrthugu

Im very new to kivy and python so I may have thrown myself in at the deep end here but i'm trying to figure out how to get an android intent and use it within a simple kivy app?

So im currently trying to figure out the basic design elements and just how to get stuff working. I want to be able to click on a link (for example) and launch my app and then do stuff, nothing too complicated, it just needs to be able to get the link which is passed to it from android.

I figured out this was to do with android intent filters and added the appropriate "intent_filters.xml" file to make this work.
So clicking on the link will launch my app, which is good.

However I cant figure out then how to parse the information passed to the app in android. So below is a very simple app with a button and I just want to update the button to see if my intent is being picked up or not.

Currently clicking the button causes the app to close. When i test this in the Kivy VM I am using to compile the apk it will close with a message that "platform" is not defined (which makes sense as its not in android) but it doesnt much help with testing or tracking down how to make it work.

I've read some stuff which seems to suggest that this might not be possible with kivy?
Can anyone confirm if this is possible in kivy and if so, how?
(i've tried variations on activity.getIntent(), intent.getData(), Intent.getIntent().getStringExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT), Intent().getData().getPath() all to no avail)

from kivy.app import App



from kivy.uix.button import Button

from kivy.uix.boxlayout import BoxLayout





class TutorialApp(App):



    def build(self):

        self.gen_btn = Button(text='Initial',

                         size_hint=(.90, .10),

                         pos=(5, 5),

                         font_size=50)

        self.gen_btn.bind(on_press=self.update_tutorialapp)

        l = BoxLayout()

        l.add_widget(self.gen_btn)

        return l



    def update_tutorialapp(self, *args):

        st = update_button()

        st.update_Message(self)



class update_button():



    def update_Message(self, source):

        source.gen_btn.text = "the event was called"

        if platform=="android":

            from jnius import cast

            from jnius import autoclass

            import android

            import android.activity



            # test for an intent passed to us

            PythonActivity = autoclass('org.renpy.android.PythonActivity')

            activity = PythonActivity.mActivity

            intent = activity.getIntent()

            intent_data = intent.getData()



            source.gen_btn.text = PythonActivity.getIntent().getStringExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT)



if __name__ == "__main__":

    TutorialApp().run()