activate Flow from MIT App Inventor

[eggger]

I want to activate Flow from "MIT App Inventor"

I thought of using shortcut trigger for the flow
and activate it by ActivityStarter from app inventor

I need some help to fill those fields

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[Martin]

Hi,

I would recommend to start the flow using a broadcast intent. Does MIT App Inventor support a way to send a broadcast?
If yes, you could add a trigger General Broadcast with field action set to start.your.flow and then send a broadcast intent with this action from App Inventor.

Regards,
Martin

[eggger]

I don't think broadcast intent is possible ,
can you suggest another way to start a Flow?

[Martin]

Then you can try using the shortcut-trigger. Try to fill in following values in the UI shown on your screenshot:
Action: ch.gridvision.ppam.androidautomagic.intent.action.TRIGGER_SHORTCUT
ExtraKey: name
ExtraValue: the title defined within the trigger shortcut in Automagic

[eggger]

it doesn't worked

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[Martin]

I've missed the DataType. Please enter application/x-androidautomagic in field DataType and see if it works.

[eggger]

great success

[Martin]