termux/termux-widget

Receive data shared from other applications

steelman opened this issue · 2 comments

steelman commented

My idea is to share data from other applications with scripts/programs via Termux:Widget (i believe). For example: I receive a text message from a computer system with a code. I wold like to generate a QR code with that code and some other piece of text in it. Normally this would require writing whole Android. With Termux:Widget acting as an interface it could be handled with something as simple as:

#!/bin/bash
sed -ne 's/.*your code is: \([0-9]\{6\}\).*/\1@2137/p' | qrencode -t UTF8

Ofc, if the result cannot be presented in a terminal window termux-open can be used to pass it to another Android application.

agnostic-apollo commented

Your description is not clear for your flow.

If you want to share text something with other apps, use https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux-share

To receive file or urls from other apps, check https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Intents_and_Hooks

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steelman commented

Thank you. That is sufficiently close to what I need.