How to open Pleco on iOS and/or Android from another app?

[alanmd]

Is there a URI or something (e.g. “pleco://好吧” that can be used to open Pleco with a specific char/word, something like Skritter does, on iOS and/or Android?

 

[mikelove]

There is on iOS:

plecoapi://x-callback-url/s?q=(search term)

You can add:

&x-source=(your app name)&x-success=(callback URL)

to add a button to return to your app / website afterwords.

There's not currently a URI equivalent on Android - you can easily launch Pleco from an intent but not from a URI.

 

[alanmd]

Great, thanks!

 

[alanmd]

I think that the correct URI might be the very similar plecoapi://x-callback-url/s?q=(search term) - I've found both versions listed in a few different places here and there, but only s?q works for me...

 

[mikelove]

Quite right - fixed now.

 

[vermillon]

A few years later: is there now support for URIs in Android? Or any plan to do so?

 

[mikelove]

Yes, they've actually been supported for several years now Same protocols as on iOS.

 

[vermillon]

Thanks, I was able to add a plug-in to ctext.org to open Pleco and look-up words
Is there a more complete documentation of the URI features that are available? (perhaps a Reader that is able to use the ctext URIs would be useful!)

 

[mikelove]

We haven't bothered documenting them explicitly since they've pretty much all been added at the request of various developers that want to link to us, but if you go to pleco.com/ipmanual/vershist.html and search for 'plecoapi' you should see them all in there.