# Android share target - alternative implementation
**URL:** https://community.silverbullet.md/t/android-share-target-alternative-implementation/2994
**Category:** Tricks & Techniques
**Created:** [August 6, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/android-share-target-alternative-implementation/2994 "2025-08-06T13:04:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@lutzky](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/lutzky)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2025, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/android-share-target-alternative-implementation/2994/1 "2025-08-06T13:04:17Z")
I want to add SilverBullet as a “share” target on Android. This would allow me to send it pages I’m looking at, notes from chats, and others. I’ve requested a native PWA implementation in [#1090](https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/1090), but in the meantime I found an alternative.
[https://http-shortcuts.rmy.ch/](https://http-shortcuts.rmy.ch/) is an Android app that lets you set up a custom share target which sends an HTTP request. My config:
- Basic request is PUT to `https://my.sb.instance/Inbox/{dateSlashTime}.md`
- `dateSlashTime` is a global variable (you can define it from the “basic request” dialog) of type Timestamp, with format `yyyy-MM-dd/HH-mm-ss`.
- Altogether, this makes it compatible with the built-in “quick note” syntax.
- Request headers is `X-Sync-Mode` set to `true`, a la [https://silverbullet.md/HTTP%20API](https://silverbullet.md/HTTP%20API)
- Request body has `Content-Type` set to `text/markdown`, and request body set to `{quickNoteContents}`
- `quickNoteContents is a `Text input`global variable, with Multiline enabled,`Allow Receiving Value from Share Dialogue`enabled, and`Data to Receive from Sharing`set to`Text only`.
- Authentication is set to `Bearer Authentication`, configured with `SB_AUTH_TOKEN` a la [https://silverbullet.md/Install/Configuration#Authentication](https://silverbullet.md/Install/Configuration#Authentication)
- Response Handling is set to display a Toast Popup
And that’s basically it! Now I can either go to HTTP shortcut directly from the app, from its shortcut menu (holding the app icon on the homescreen), or I can use the Share button in app to send a quick note to silverbullet.
To make these useful, I also have a bit of space lua; `inbox.notes()` shows everything from the inbox (I have this on my index page), and because I often just delete these notes directly from my mobile, I also automatically show a `Page: Delete` bottom on them.
```lua
function inbox.notes()
local res = template.each(query[[
from index.tag "page"
where string.startsWith(name, "Inbox/")
]], template.new[==[
**[[${name}|${string.sub(name,7)}]]** - ![[${name}]]
]==])
if some(res) then
return [==[# Inbox notes
]==] .. string.trimEnd(res)
else
return ""
end
end
local inboxBottomTemplate = template.new[==[This is an inbox page
]==]
local function inboxBottomWidget()
if not string.startsWith(editor.getCurrentPage(), "Inbox/") then
return nil
end
return widgets.commandButton("Delete this note", "Page: Delete")
end
event.listen {
name = "hooks:renderBottomWidgets",
run = inboxBottomWidget
}
```
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### Author:  [@dklawren](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/dklawren)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/android-share-target-alternative-implementation/2994/2 "2025-08-06T15:23:37Z")
Thank you for this howto. This is one feature that I have been missing or a while although I did see the HTTP Shortcuts app, I never got around to trying it out. I have now set it up using your pointers and works great. Thanks again.
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### Author:  [@ajain](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/ajain)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2025, 9:17am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/android-share-target-alternative-implementation/2994/3 "2025-08-08T09:17:38Z")
I really love this idea.
> [@lutzky](#):
>
> ```auto
> local function inboxBottomWidget()
> if not string.startsWith(editor.getCurrentPage(), "Inbox/") then
> return nil
> end
> return widgets.commandButton("Delete this note", "Page: Delete")
> end
>
> ```
How do you get the command button to render?
For me using this code results in the following output:
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### Author:  [@lutzky](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/lutzky)
#### Post date: [August 8, 2025, 8:59pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/android-share-target-alternative-implementation/2994/4 "2025-08-08T20:59:40Z")
Not sure why that doesn’t work for you. Try simply doing `${widgets.commandButton("Page: Delete")}`, that should work on silverbullet v2.
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### Author:  [@ajain](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/ajain)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2025, 6:03am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/android-share-target-alternative-implementation/2994/5 "2025-08-11T06:03:16Z")
Hmmm. Just adding the command button works for me.
Weird.
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### Author:  [@schroederc](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/schroederc)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2026, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/android-share-target-alternative-implementation/2994/6 "2026-05-23T20:40:27Z")
I really appreciated this tip. Thanks! It works fantastically!
The only thing that I added was a "Run on Success" script to open up the page immediately:
```javascript
openUrl('https://my.sb.instance/Inbox/' + getVariable('dateSlashTime'))
```
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### Author:  [@jmfayard](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/jmfayard)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2026, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/android-share-target-alternative-implementation/2994/7 "2026-08-22T20:56:39Z")
> [@lutzky](#):
>
> - Basic request is PUT to `https://my.sb.instance/Inbox/{dateSlashTime}.md`
Hello, with that URL I got an HTTP 401
It's missing /.fs per [HTTP%20API](https://silverbullet.md/HTTP%20API)
The corrected URL is:
PUT [https://my.sb.instance/.fs/Inbox/{dateSlashTime}.md](https://my.sb.instance/.fs/Inbox/%7BdateSlashTime%7D.md)
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### Author:  [@zef](https://community.silverbullet.md/u/zef)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2026, 4:56am UTC](https://community.silverbullet.md/t/android-share-target-alternative-implementation/2994/8 "2026-08-23T04:56:04Z")
For the record: the /.fs was not a thing around the time of originally posting this.