add a share button in Firefox OS application

Question

I am creating a firefox OS application, I want the user to be able to share a link through any application installed and eligible (facebook, twitter etc). I saw android has this kind of feature and firefox OS has it as well, as I saw it in one of it's built in applications. Went through Web API, didn't find a suitable match,

Any ideas how to do it?

Answer 1

This is the intended use of the Web Activity API . The idea is that applications register to handle activities like share. The Firefox OS Boiler Plate app has several examples of using Web Activities. In that example a user could share a url using code like:

var share = document.querySelector("#share");
if (share) {
    share.onclick = function () {
        new MozActivity({
            name: "share",
            data: {
                number: 1,
                url: "http://robertnyman.com"
            }
        });
    };
}

Any app that handles the share activity will be shown allowing the user to pick the proper app to handle the share.