I want to allow people to share images and text to my app. When someone shares an image, they have the choice to share it to Page A or Page B. It's similar to what Facebook does below:
I have looked at Android's official documentation on sharing. It doesn't seem to explain anything on multiple share targets, unless I'm missing something.
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When I click share icon on Google PlayStore it automatically opens the option of various applications like WhatsApp, Skype, Facebook to send URL.
Is there any code or widget to have the same accomplished?
Have a look at Intent.ACTION_VIEW and Intent.ACTION_SEND.
With a little googling you will find many code examples.
It is a common behavior. The share button associated with lots of apps on Android. So, it is part of their code.
I've seen plenty of example where people are sharing content from their application but I want to be able to share content with my application e.g. Users can press share via then Twitter.
Does anybody know any tutorials or guides? Also would you be able to share with a service? Would be a great feature to include :) Thanks
P.S. I dont want to share with Twitter/ Facebook, I want to share from apps like the browser to my app.
Have you looked at these Developer docs?
It has an example code snippet.
You can either use the SDK's / API's available for Facebook and Twitter or else you could use Intent.ACTION_SEND to share text and images to the walls at Facebook and Twitter...
So sharing on social channels is a hot topic these days.
I have done some research on how to share to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and G+.
Lets start with an example.. I want to share text, and an image to 4 social channels (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and G+), but without the user adding more text.
My findings so far:
You can use Intent.ACTION_SEND but there are a lot of limitations like:
You need to make your own chooser if you want to filter the social channels
Sending text and image is not possible without the user adding more text
Using default social channel APIs, but:
Can be overhead, you only want to share.
Are not always stable.
There are some open source libraries you can use, but they are not as complete as you may think
Use paid services (do I need to say more...)
So in conclusion, I need help. What is the way to go?.
You don't need to do anything for the Intent.ACTION_SEND. Specifically because the apps listed are meant to handle this intent.
This should be perfectly fine because you'd rather have the user's choose what they'd like to share it on then constrain them to one. I'd say if you're looking to share then stick with the standard on android and use ACTION_SEND.
You can't expect the user to have Application A when they may prefer using Application B. Don't think in terms of constraint.
Also as your comment about the limitation of ACTION_SEND.. I'd recommend re-reading the documentation because I don't see that limitation anywhere:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html#ACTION_SEND
You can use SocialAuthwhich supports 10 social providers and it provides you functionality's like share text , upload image , get albums , feeds etc.
I'm developing (actually it's done, only the Facebook and Hyves shares are missing) Android mobile app that should share image to Face and Hyves.
There are couple of problems that I do not understand, so I need (urgent) help.
My idea was to save user/pass on device, and to check during the input if these details are correct. Then I wanted to somehow use API's to share image on the wall, preferably without any additional apps created, just share photo like you would share it from gallery.
Now I'm reading Facebook Developers guide, and it advises to create facebook app with domanin / e-mail, but this is not my app and I do not have authority to create anything in the name of third party.
So, what is the proper way to share photo to Social Networks, without creating "apps" and getting apps ID and stuff.
It seems that I can't find that kind of info on FB Developers page, and I'm afraid how will I get proper information for hyves (Dutch social network, and I do not speek dutch).
I wish to drop pins or view the photo's which are of my interest in my Android Application, do we have any SDK by pinterest , as I would want to integrate the same inside my Android Application.
Any suggestions would be like a boon
http://developers.pinterest.com/android/
This is for others who might want to get started with pinterest and land in this page.
It seems like the answer is "not yet"... But go and sign up with them, I'm sure it's on their radar and will come soon enough if it's in their basic FAQ.
https://support.pinterest.com/entries/21151603-i-m-a-developer-does-pinterest-have-a-public-api
Another option (or just for the meantime before they release an official API) may be if the official pinterest app offers an intent for sharing? Plenty of other social web entities like twitter, facebook, etc give intent based access in their official apps, that let you dump media, links, etc into them from other apps in the system, and have the information posted to your accounts.