Google Keep list note from inside your app

Question

In my app, I am writing a functionality to share a shopping list to Google Keep. For this, I use the Intent.ACTION_SEND action and set the package to the one of Google Keep.

Everything works great, but I am wondering if it is possible to add an EXTRA parameter to the Intent telling Google Keep it must be displayed as a list with checkboxes, like it is possible to add extra event-specific extra's when creating a Calendar Event. Now, it is displayed as plain text.

Here is my code:

try {
        Intent keepIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        keepIntent.setType("text/plain");
        keepIntent.setPackage("com.google.android.keep");

        keepIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Shopping List " + recipe.getName());
        keepIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Flower\nyeast\nbutter\nalmonds");

        startActivity(keepIntent);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Dialogs.toastShort(this, "Google Keep is not installed on your device");
    }

Now, I get this as result:

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What, I want to get is this as result - without that the user has to select "show checkboxes" in the actionbar:

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Thanks for your help.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 01 '15 at 19:04

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Unfortunately, it's not possible. Google has not published an API for public nor 3rd party use. If you check out the http traffic you can see the underlying API but there's no real way to replicate it. Sorry

answered Jul 01 '15 at 19:04

adao7000

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Thanks for your response. This is what I suspected a little bit, because I found nothing about an API or something else. It is not a big issue in the project, more a nice to have. – pinyin_samu Jul 01 '15 at 21:11

Google Keep list note from inside your app

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