Integration - Aisleron Shopping List

[thebatdan]

Hi There

I recently released the Aisleron shopping List app. One feature I wanted was to display loyalty cards, and as a long time Catima user it made sense for me to hook into Catima, rather than building the functionality myself. I basically use the CardShortcutConfigure activity to capture the card launch intent and trigger it from a button in my app. It works quite well, thanks for making that activity available for use.

Just wanted to message you to:

1. Check you're ok with me integrating in this way, and
2. Let you know what I'm doing, in case there are any changes in the future I might need to know about :-)

Regards
Danie

[TheLastProject]

That sounds cool. I assume you're just starting the LoyaltyCardViewActivity intent with just a simple id field?

It's fine to use it that way. I don't think that API will change soon, but I'll try to remember you make use of it :)

You may also want to consider using the content provider so you can search for Catima cards inside of your app (for easier "connecting" of cards to stores). Gadgetbridge uses this (and contributed that feature): https://github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Android/blob/main/docs/CONTENT_PROVIDER.md :)

[TheLastProject]

Oh wait, I found the MR: aisleron/aisleron#29

From a quick glance I guess you open the card shortcut activity and save the intent for whatever the user chooses? I didn't know that was a thing you could do in Android. Well, given I never want to break people's existing shortcuts this would probably also keep working fine :)

[thebatdan]

Thanks @TheLastProject

Yep, I just pull the intent from the returned shortcut and save that for use later. Works great, though it does rely on some deprecated constants so I'll might look at the Content Provider option in a later release.

[TheLastProject]

I tried your latest build, nice integration :) Really cool to see more apps integrate with Catima :)