I have a simple app that will, at some point, generate a string of text that I want to share with any other app installed on the phone that can take a string of text (twitter, facebook, etc.)
Here's a sample of what I'm trying to do:
Intent sendIntent = new Intent();
sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "This is my text to send.");
sendIntent.setType("text/plain");
startActivity(sendIntent);
This is from: https://developer.android.com/training/sharing/send.html#send-text-content
However, Android studio says it "cannot resolve" startActivity and suggests that I do this:
import static android.support.v4.app.ActivityCompat.startActivity;
Ok, so I do that and now startActivity() is expecting three inputs. This seems to be a new requirement because of an update. All the code examples I've seen only give it two inputs at most. The expectation is:
An activity???
The intent, which we defined
The bundle/extra options which I am leaving null
How do I satisfy the first input? Will it be possible to redirect back to my app after the sharing function is complete?
try this
Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sharingIntent.setType("text/plain");
sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "This is my text");
sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "This is the title");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share using"));
setting title is not compulsory. then the "share using" is just a text which you can replace with anything you want. its just shows above all suggested application
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I'm trying to make refer and earn activity in my appSo I want to permanently display a few apps like whatsapp, etc for the user to click on them and share directly.I'm using Intent to share the referral code but it pops up the apps list when the user clicks share.The code I'm using is,
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "This is a message");
intent.setType("text/plain");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share via"));
How can I make the app chooser permanent for a few apps?
The app chooser is not intended to be displayed permanently. Therefore you will have to create simple buttons or icons and create an intent that refers to the desired app directly, by setting the package of the intent.
E.g. to share sth with WhatsApp use sth like this:
Intent sendIntent = new Intent();
// here comes the magic
sendIntent.setPackage("com.whatsapp");
sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "This is my text to send.");
sendIntent.setType("text/plain");
startActivity(sendIntent);
Depending on the type of content you want to share and the apps you want to share with, it makes sense to reuse the code to create the intent and just set the respective package and eventually some additional parameters.
You will need package name of app and a Intent.
change ACTION_VIEW to ACTION_SENDTO
set the Uri as you did set the
package to whatsapp
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO,
Uri.parse("content://com.android.contacts/data/" + c.getString(0)));
i.setType("text/plain");
i.setPackage("com.whatsapp"); // so that only Whatsapp reacts and not the chooser
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "I'm the body.");
startActivity(i);
You can refer this link for More:
Send text to specific contact (whatsapp)
Sending message through WhatsApp
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("*/*");
intent.setPackage("com.whatsapp");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "your text content");
startActivity(intent)
I am facing same problem for share tamil font content in Whatsapp. I found the solution, this setType("*/*") share full content.
I'd like to share different information depending on the application selected by the user. For example, I'd like to send shorter text to Twitter than I do Gmail (otherwise, I go over in characters). Is there anyway to achieve this? Bonus question, is it possible to make hyperlinks via sharing via Gmail or SMS. For example, "Download here" where 'here' is a link instead of "Download by clicking the link below: http://..."
Current code:
Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, getTextToShare(data));
shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, data.getTitle());
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share this story"));
To find the selected share target this could be interesting for you: Branching the Android Share Intent extras depending on which method they choose to share
By using below code may helps you:
String shareText="Download <a href='[download link]'>here</a>";
Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, Html.toHtml(shareText));
shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, data.getTitle());
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share this story"));
Share Url Links and Texts into Social Networks (Facebook,Twitter and linkedin)
I want from my application to send to facebook and other applications an Image and some text so the user can share them. Currently I put the text and the image URI but when I choose facebook only the image is sent. In whatsApp also only the image is sent. In Google+ application both image and text are passed. Can someone show me the right direction?
Code example ( I don't have the original code here with me now, maybe I'll post it later)
Intent shareIntent = new Intent();
shareIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uriToImage);
shareIntent.setType("image/png");
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT , myText);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Choose an app" ));
If I change ACTION_SEND to ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE then it does not work at all. If I change type to "text/plain" or html then text is sent to whatsapp, google+ and Facebook messenger, but NOT in normal Facebook app ( it opens an empty share dialog).
You should use below lines
Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.setType("image/*");
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "My image");
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.fromFile(new File(filename_toshare)));// this is for image . here filename_toshare is your file path.
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "My Image ");// this is for text
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sendIntent, "Email:"));
hope this helps you.
I want to make tweet/share buttons for gamers. They will make them able to write some tweets or share the gained score in the wall.
I found this code:
String shareBody = "Share text";
Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sharingIntent.setType("text/plain");
sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject Here");
sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, shareBody);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Test"));
This code is quite good.
For the Twitter app, the text is sent correctly. ("Share text")
But it doesn't work for the facebook app.
Where is the error?
Thanks in advance!
You have no error - it's simply impossible.
Facebook is limiting the "share via intent" to display only the hyperlinks if exists. you can't display any regular text.
The only way to do that is to make a full facebook connect (Facebook's Android SDK) and ask post-to-wall permissions from user.
I used the following code.
Intent share = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
share.setType("text/plain");
share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject);
share.putExtra(
Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,
"i have just visited http://www.google.com");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(share,
"Share Sydneyho! with your friends via"));
When i select gmail its showing what is written in Intent.EXTRA_TEXT but when i am selecting facebook its entirely different message and i don't know from where its comes from.
please help!
I have used the following code snippet to share Message with Action_Send to other apps.
Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sharingIntent.setType("text/plain");
sharingIntent.putExtra("android.intent.extra.SUBJECT", "");
sharingIntent.putExtra("android.intent.extra.TEXT", "ABC");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share using"));
And it works fine in my device(Android 2.2).
Conceptually I dont know what is different between your code and above.
But the above code works fine for me.
Got some similar posts here at stackoverflow and come to this conclusion we cant pass text
in
share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,"bla bla bla");
to make it visible on facebook share page but we have to pass link to a website.