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How to add an option to share to Instagram Stories?

Background
In my Android App, users can share generated images to other apps. It's working nicely using the ACTION_SEND Intent.
Many users have asked why they can't share to Instagram stories directly.
Initially I thought Instagram doesn't support receiving Intents for stories (correct to some extent). I searched for it today, and according to this documentation, to share to Instagram Stories, a separate intent com.instagram.share.ADD_TO_STORY has to be used. I tried it, and it works fine.
The problem:
How do I keep both the options available?
I thought about it a lot, and came up with the following options:
1) Have two separate buttons. It will work, but it will look/feel bad.
2) Have my app accept ACTION_SEND intent, name it as Share to Instagram Story, and redirect the intent to the com.instagram.share.ADD_TO_STORY intent. In principle, make a proxy intent.
It will work, and look/feel great, but I don't know if its allowed (legal, etc) and can I disable the intent if the user doesn't have Instagram installed.
3) Add the 'com.instagram.share.ADD_TO_STORY' to the app chooser launched by ACTION_SEND. This would be ideal, but I don't know how to do it.

If you want to add multiple actions to Intent and create a chooser look at this example:
Intent viewIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
Intent editIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_EDIT);
viewIntent.setDataAndType(uri, type);
editIntent.setDataAndType(uri, type);
Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(editIntent, "Open in...");
chooserIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, new Intent[] { viewIntent });
startActivity(chooserIntent);
UPDATE: Here is good solution to your answer. How to make an intent with multiple actions

I tried the same approach as on Facebook's official documentation then tested on Huawai P9 Lite, Huawai P20 Lite and on Samsung S8 - it only worked on Samsung S8 for not known reason (to me). I gave up on it since, obviously, it's not working on most of the phones.

// Define image asset URI
Uri stickerAssetUri = Uri.parse("your-image-asset-uri-goes-here");
String sourceApplication = "com.my.app";
// Instantiate implicit intent with ADD_TO_STORY action,
// sticker asset, and background colors
Intent intent = new Intent("com.instagram.share.ADD_TO_STORY");
intent.putExtra("source_application", sourceApplication);
intent.setType(MEDIA_TYPE_JPEG);
intent.putExtra("interactive_asset_uri", stickerAssetUri);
intent.putExtra("top_background_color", "#33FF33");
intent.putExtra("bottom_background_color", "#FF00FF");
// Instantiate activity and verify it will resolve implicit intent
Activity activity = getActivity();
activity.grantUriPermission("com.instagram.android", stickerAssetUri, Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION);
if (activity.getPackageManager().resolveActivity(intent, 0) != null) { activity.startActivityForResult(intent, 0);}

Android ACTION_EDIT Intent to edit image

I'm developing an app that allows users to take photos, draw on them, and then upload them into our social media application. I would like to use a third-party app for the drawing to lessen the work load on us. I found a number of answers on here about how to do so, and much of the following code is taken from those answers. When I try different combinations of answers, I always get Toast errors on the Intent. The two errors I get are "File could not be opened" and "Image could not be edited". The former sounds like file permissions problems, which I think should be getting resolved from the grantUriPermissions work-around below. The other error I have no idea about.
// Code taken from answer on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15699299/android-edit-image-intent
final Uri uri = Uri.parse(this.photoPath);
int flags = Intent.FLAG_GRANT_WRITE_URI_PERMISSION | Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION;
Intent editIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_EDIT);
editIntent.setDataAndType(uri, "image/*");
editIntent.addFlags(flags);
editIntent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, uri);
// This work-around allows the intent to access our private FileProvider storage.
// Code taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24835364/android-open-private-file-with-third-party-app
List<ResolveInfo> resInfoList = this.getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(editIntent, PackageManager.MATCH_DEFAULT_ONLY);
for (ResolveInfo resolveInfo : resInfoList) {
String packageName = resolveInfo.activityInfo.packageName;
this.grantUriPermission(packageName, uri, flags);
}
startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(editIntent, null), EDIT_INTENT);
Anybody seen these Toast messages before and been able to resolve them?

I figured out the problem. My use of Uri.parse was wrong because I'm using a FileProvider in my application. Exchanging that line for FileProvider.getUriForFile made the app work as intended.

Suggest several apps in playstore to user (Similar to Share dialog)

My app forwards users to a different app to perform a specific action (e.g. ACTION_SHARE, except that the apps that I forward users to do not implement an intent filter) Since they don't implement intent filters, I have a list of package names that support the action.
This part is working fine, like this:
for (String knownApp : knownApps) {
Intent intent = pm.getLaunchIntentForPackage(knownApp);
if (intent != null) {
ResolveInfo resolveInfo = pm.resolveActivity(intent, 0);
intentList.add(new LabeledIntent(intent, knownApp, resolveInfo.loadLabel(pm), resolveInfo.icon));
}
}
LabeledIntent[] extraIntents = intentList.toArray(new LabeledIntent[intentList.size()]);
Intent openInChooser = Intent.createChooser(actionIntent, getString(R.string.perform_action_with));
openInChooser.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, extraIntents);
startActivity(openInChooser);
If the user has none of the apps installed, I want to give the user a choice of apps to download to fulfill the action.
Currently that looks like this.
As you can see it's lacking both icon and name. For regular apps I use an intent chooser which needs LabledIntent, but on one hand, I can't get the name and icon from the playstore unless I scrape them (which is not allowed by google, besides LabledIntent requires a resourceId as the Icon, which I can't get for downloaded files.), on the other the intent chooser won't seem to display the intent unless the package name of the intent and LabeledIntent match. This does not work for URIs which I'm using to access the Play Store in the first place.
Now I'm looking for ideas on how to get the following code to display both the correct name and app icon, as well as forward to the correct page on the play store.
protected void showPlayStoreOptions(List<String> knownApps) {
Intent chooserIntent = new Intent();
Intent showIntent = Intent.createChooser(chooserIntent, "You need one of these Apps on Google Play..."); //googles brand guidelines state that "on Google Play" has to be used
List<Intent> list = new ArrayList<>();
for (String knownApp : knownApps) {
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=" + knownApp)); //normally you would try an uri with market:// first, catch the exception if no playstore is installed and then use this, but the intent chooser seems to automatically forward correctly.
list.add(intent);
//list.add(new LabeledIntent(intent, "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=" + knownApp, "test name", R.drawable.icon_info));
//list.add(new LabeledIntent(intent, ""+Uri.parse("https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=" + knownApp), "test name", R.drawable.icon_info));
}
showIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, list.toArray(new Intent[list.size()]));
startActivity(showIntent);
}
So to sum up my questions.
How can I get a resource Id from a downloaded image file, or how can I use the downloaded image file with a LabledIntent.
(Extending LabledIntent does not work due to issues with parceling (and those methods are package private))
How can I display a LabledIntent in a choose intent with an URI?
I realize it's probably easier to write my own chooser, but I want to wrangle this into the default android system.

Intent for selecting wallpaper with wallpaper region highlighting

I would like to know if it's possible to create an Intent that makes the gallery cropper show wallpaper highlighting. This feature has been introduced in Honeycomb. To get an idea of what I'm looking for have a look at the tablet on the image (the three blue rectangles).
I had a look at the source code of the ICS gallery app, but I couldn't find what I'm looking for.

I would like to know if it's possible to create an Intent that makes
the gallery cropper show wallpaper highlighting.
Assuming you want your app to behave properly across all Android devices, the answer is no. Neither the cropping activity nor the highlighted crop-view is part of the public API; both are internal to the Gallery 3D app. In other words, you could spend all the time in the world trying to find an Intent action to get this to magically work for you, but the fact is that some devices simply won't support it. For example, many devices, such as the HTC Sense and Samsung Galaxy, have customized Android versions that have their own gallery app. Since these Gallery apps are specific to the companies that designed them, these devices won't necessarily have a CropImage class for you to launch.
That being said, in order to guarantee that your application works across all devices, you'll have to incorporate the cropping code directly into your project. And if for some reason you find a way to launch the crop activity with an Intent, you should test to see whether the com.android.gallery3d package exists at the very least, and handle it somehow.
I have included below a work-around that might help you incorporate the Android code into your project. I don't currently have access to a tablet running Honeycomb/ICS so I can't be more specific with regards to how to get it working on newer versions of Android, but I imagine it involves similar analysis and a bit of copying and pasting from the com.android.gallery3d package.
Reusing the "Crop Activity" on Android 2.x
I tested this on my Nexus One and just before the soft "crop-rectangle" popped up, I got the following logcat output:
I/ActivityManager( 94): Starting: Intent {
act=android.intent.action.CHOOSER
cmp=android/com.android.internal.app.ChooserActivity (has extras) } from pid 558
I/ActivityManager( 94): Starting: Intent {
act=android.intent.action.ATTACH_DATA
dat=content://media/external/images/media/648
typ=image/jpeg
flg=0x3000001
cmp=com.google.android.gallery3d/com.cooliris.media.Photographs (has extras) } from pid 558
I/ActivityManager( 94): Starting: Intent {
dat=content://media/external/images/media/648
cmp=com.google.android.gallery3d/com.cooliris.media.CropImage (has extras) } from pid 558
So from what I can tell, the sequence of events that occurs when you perform this action is as follows:
You navigate to an image in the gallery and select "set as...". An ActivityChooser pops up and you select "Wallpaper".
This selection fires an Intent with action ATTACH_DATA and component com.cooliris.media.Photographs, which is a class in the Android framework that serves as a "wallpaper picker" for the camera application; it just redirects to the standard pick action. Since we have given the Intent a URI that specifies the image to set as the wallpaper, this class will inevitably execute the following code (see the class's onResume method):
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setClass(this, CropImage.class);
intent.setData(imageToUse);
formatIntent(intent);
startActivityForResult(intent, CROP_DONE);
This fires another Intent that starts the CropImage Activity... this is where you specify the cropped area using the soft-rectangle. When you specify the crop, the result is set to RESULT_OK with requestCode = CROP_DONE. The Photographs Activity switch-cases over these two constants and then sets the wallpaper accordingly (see the Photographs class's onActivityResult method).
Unfortunately, for whatever reason the Android team decided to removed these functionalities from the SDK beginning with API 4 (Android v1.6)... so if you wanted to fire an Intent to perform these exact sequence of events, it would require you to sift through the com.cooliris.media package, and to copy and paste the relevant classes into your project. In my past experience, doing this is often more trouble than it is worth (unless it is to perform a relatively simple action) but it is definitely possible.
Here is a nice tutorial on how you might go about simplifying the process... it requires you to copy and paste 12 Java classes into your project as opposed to the entire com.cooliris.media package. These classes together should be enough to correctly fire up the CropImage Activity, but you will have to set the wallpaper manually upon the CropImage Activity's result.
Also note that the sample code provided assumes that you want to crop immediately after a picture is taken by the camera. In order to, for example, start the CropImage Activity with a pre-selected image from the gallery, you'd call,
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
startActivityForResult(i, ACTIVITY_SELECT_IMAGE);
and then in onActivityResult, (if requestCode == ACTIVITY_SELECT_IMAGE and resultCode == RESULT_OK), launch the CropImage Activity with the Uri data given in the onActivityResult's third argument (see the sample code for an example on how to launch the Activity).
If anything, hopefully this will help point you in the right direction. Let me know how it goes and leave a comment if you want me to clarify anything.

I this will help:
public class CropSelectedImageActivity extends Activity {
#Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);
Intent photoPickerIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK);
photoPickerIntent.setType("image/*");
startActivityForResult(photoPickerIntent, 1);
}
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
final Bundle extras = data.getExtras();
Uri photoUri = data.getData();
if (photoUri != null) {
Intent intent = new Intent("com.android.camera.action.CROP");
//intent.setClassName("com.android.camera", "com.android.camera.CropImage");
intent.setData(photoUri);
intent.putExtra("outputX", 96);
intent.putExtra("outputY", 96);
intent.putExtra("aspectX", 1);
intent.putExtra("aspectY", 1);
intent.putExtra("scale", true);
intent.putExtra("return-data", true);
startActivityForResult(intent, 1);
}
}
}
}
taken from: ImageCropper

I haven't tried this but if you have a look here
Bundle newExtras = new Bundle();
// maybe that here - for more options see your source code link
newExtras.putString("circleCrop", "true");
Intent cropIntent = new Intent();
// Uri would be something from MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI
cropIntent.setData(img.fullSizeImageUri());
// edit: it's inside com.android.gallery in case that is even installed.
// should work if you replace that with setClassName("com.android.gallery", "com.android.camera.CropImage")
cropIntent.setClass(this, CropImage.class);
cropIntent.putExtras(newExtras);
startActivityForResult(cropIntent, CROP_MSG);
Then this might work for you.
Via pick intent maybe that way:
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK);
i.setDataAndType(MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, "image/*");
startActivity(i);

Just Do this!
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_ATTACH_DATA).setDataAndType(contentUri, "image/jpeg")
.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION)
.putExtra("mimeType", "image/jpeg");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, getString(R.string.set_as)));
which "image/jpeg" is the image mimeType,
contentUri is the image uri

There is a nice library that's based on ICS's cropping screen (from the gallery app) , here .
You could modify it to your needs, to select the part to be cropped.
The code is based on Android's Gallery app (link here), under "/com/android/camera/gallery" , while the most important class is "CropImage" in "/com/android/camera/" . It's available for all even in case the library will be missing (Google's code is always available), as such:
git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Gallery3D/
(and even if this won't be available, I'm sure there will be others)
Advantages over the other solutions here:
independent
customizable
cannot crash due the changes in the ROM. Other solutions assume the existance of exact classes and apps.
open source.
a real implementation, and not starting an intent to another app.
other solutions are highly non-recommended, just because of the usage of non-official intents, as written here . This is written by a very well known StackOverflow user called "CommonsWare" , who is very respectable user that you can count on in a lot of Android-related topics.
Again, the most recommended thing for cropping images is still a third party library. Not using workarounds of intents.

Try this
// Set Home wallpaper the image
public void setHomeWallpaper () {
BitmapDrawable bitmapDrawable = ((BitmapDrawable) imageView.getDrawable());
Bitmap bitmap = bitmapDrawable.getBitmap();
String bitmapPath = Images.Media.insertImage(getContentResolver(), bitmap, "", null);
Uri bitmapUri = Uri.parse(bitmapPath);
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_ATTACH_DATA).setDataAndType(bitmapUri, "image/jpeg")
.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION)
.putExtra("mimeType", "image/jpeg");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, getString(R.string.background)));
Toast.makeText(PicassoDisplayImageAdapter.this, "قم بإختيار التطبيق المناسب لتعيين الصورة", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

Android Intent for Twitter application

Is it possible to show a list of applications (with intent.createChooser) that only show me my twitter apps on my phone (so htc peep (htc hero) or twitdroid). I have tried it with intent.settype("application/twitter") but it doesnt find any apps for twitter and only shows my mail apps.
Thank you,
Wouter

I'm posting this because I haven't seen a solution yet that does exactly what I want.
This primarily launches the official Twitter app, or if that is not installed, either brings up a "Complete action using..." dialog (like this) or directly launches a web browser.
For list of different parameters in the twitter.com URL, see the Tweet Button docs.
Remember to URL encode the parameter values. (This code is specifically for tweeting a URL; if you don't want that, just leave out the url param.)
// Create intent using ACTION_VIEW and a normal Twitter url:
String tweetUrl = String.format("https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=%s&url=%s",
urlEncode("Tweet text"),
urlEncode("https://www.google.fi/"));
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(tweetUrl));
// Narrow down to official Twitter app, if available:
List<ResolveInfo> matches = getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(intent, 0);
for (ResolveInfo info : matches) {
if (info.activityInfo.packageName.toLowerCase().startsWith("com.twitter")) {
intent.setPackage(info.activityInfo.packageName);
}
}
startActivity(intent);
(URL encoding is cleaner if you have a little utility like this somewhere, e.g. "StringUtils".)
public static String urlEncode(String s) {
try {
return URLEncoder.encode(s, "UTF-8");
}
catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
Log.wtf(TAG, "UTF-8 should always be supported", e);
throw new RuntimeException("URLEncoder.encode() failed for " + s);
}
}
For example, on my Nexus 7 device, this directly opens the official Twitter app:
If official Twitter app is not installed and user either selects Chrome or it opens automatically (as the only app which can handle the intent):

The solutions posted before, allow you to post directly on your first twitter app. To show a list of twitters app (if there are more then one), you can custom your Intent.createChooser to show only the Itents you want.
The trick is add EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS to the default list, generated from the createChoose, and remove the others Intents from the list.
Look at this sample where I create a chooser that shows only my e-mails apps. In my case appears three mails: Gmail, YahooMail and the default Mail.
private void share(String nameApp, String imagePath) {
List<Intent> targetedShareIntents = new ArrayList<Intent>();
Intent share = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
share.setType("image/jpeg");
List<ResolveInfo> resInfo = getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(share, 0);
if (!resInfo.isEmpty()){
for (ResolveInfo info : resInfo) {
Intent targetedShare = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
targetedShare.setType("image/jpeg"); // put here your mime type
if (info.activityInfo.packageName.toLowerCase().contains(nameApp) ||
info.activityInfo.name.toLowerCase().contains(nameApp)) {
targetedShare.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "My body of post/email");
targetedShare.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.fromFile(new File(imagePath)) );
targetedShare.setPackage(info.activityInfo.packageName);
targetedShareIntents.add(targetedShare);
}
}
Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(targetedShareIntents.remove(0), "Select app to share");
chooserIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, targetedShareIntents.toArray(new Parcelable[]{}));
startActivity(chooserIntent);
}
}
You can run like that: share("twi", "/sdcard/dcim/Camera/photo.jpg");
This was based on post: Custom filtering of intent chooser based on installed Android package name

This question is a bit older, but since I have just come across a similar problem, it may also still be of interest to others. First, as mentioned by Peter, create your intent:
Intent tweetIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
tweetIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Test; please ignore");
tweetIntent.setType("application/twitter");
"application/twitter" is in fact a known content type, see here. Now, when you try to start an activity with this intent, it will show all sorts of apps that are not really Twitter clients, but want a piece of the action. As already mentioned in a couple of the "why do you even want to do that?" sort of answers, some users may find that useful. On the other hand, if I have a button in my app that says "Tweet this!", the user would very much expect this to bring up a Twitter client.
Which means that instead of just launching an activity, we need to filter out the ones that are appropriate:
PackageManager pm = getPackageManager();
List<ResolveInfo> lract
= pm.queryIntentActivities(tweetIntent,
PackageManager.MATCH_DEFAULT_ONLY);
boolean resolved = false;
for(ResolveInfo ri: lract)
{
if(ri.activityInfo.name.endsWith(".SendTweet"))
{
tweetIntent.setClassName(ri.activityInfo.packageName,
ri.activityInfo.name);
resolved = true;
break;
}
}
You would need to experiment a bit with the different providers, but if the name ends in ".SendTweet" you are pretty safe (this is the activity name in Twidroyd). You can also check your debugger for package names you want to use and adjust the string comparison accordingly (i.e. Twidroyd uses "com.twidroid.*").
In this simple example we just pick the first matching activity that we find. This brings up the Twitter client directly, without the user having to make any choices. If there are no proper Twitter clients, we revert to the standard activity chooser:
startActivity(resolved ? tweetIntent :
Intent.createChooser(tweetIntent, "Choose one"));
You could expand the code and take into account the case that there is more than one Twitter client, when you may want to create your own chooser dialog from all the activity names you find.

It is entirely possible your users will only ever, now and forever, only want to post to Twitter.
I would think that it is more likely that your users want to send information to people, and Twitter is one possibility. But, they might also want to send a text message, or an email, etc.
In that case, use ACTION_SEND, as described here. Twidroid, notably, supports ACTION_SEND, so it will appear in the list of available delivery mechanisms.

These answers are all overly complex.
If you just do a normal url Intent that does to Twitter.com, you'll get this screen:
which gives you the option of going to the website if you have no Twitter apps installed.
String url = "https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?source=webclient&text=TWEET+THIS!";
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setData(Uri.parse(url));
startActivity(i);

Either
You start an activity with an Intent with action Intent.ACTION_SEND and the text/plain MIME type. You'll have all applications that support sending text. That should be any twitter client, as well as Gmail, dropbox, etc.
Or, you try to look up for the specific action of every client you are aware of, like "com.twitter.android.PostActivity" for the official client. That will point to this client, and that is unlikely to be a complete list.
Or, you start with the second point, and fall back on the first...

Nope. The intent type is something like image/png or application/pdf, i.e. a file type, and with createChooser you're basically asking which apps can open this file type.
Now, there's no such thing as an application/twitter file that can be opened, so that won't work. I'm not aware of any other way you can achieve what you want either.

From http://twidroid.com/plugins/
Twidroid’s ACTION_SEND intent
Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "This is a sample message via Public Intent");
sendIntent.setType("application/twitter");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sendIntent, null));

I used "billynomates" answer and was able to use hashtags by using the "URLEncoder.encode(, "UTF-8")" function. The hash tags showed up just fine.
String originalMessage = "some message #MESSAGE";
String originalMessageEscaped = null;
try {
originalMessageEscaped = String.format(
"https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?source=webclient&text=%s",
URLEncoder.encode(originalMessage, "UTF-8"));
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
if(originalMessageEscaped != null) {
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
i.setData(Uri.parse(originalMessageEscaped));
startActivity(i);
}
else {
// Some Error
}