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Is it possible to exclude apps and directshare?

I want to use the directshare feature, but i need to exclude apps.
The excluding part works pretty well, i am just giving an array of intents to the chooser, while the intents are only including one specific application.
But doing this directshare does not work.
Directshare only seems to be working when giving exactly one intent to the chooser.
Is it possible to exclude apps and use directshare?
Code Snippets:
Sharing with a list of intents (How to filter specific apps for ACTION_SEND intent (and set a different text for each app)) :
final Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(targetShareIntents.remove(0), "Share with: ");
chooserIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, targetShareIntents.toArray(new Parcelable[]{}));
activity.startActivity(chooserIntent);
Sharing with directshare, but no excluding:
final Intent sendIntent = new Intent();
sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "This is my text to send.");
sendIntent.setType("text/plain");
activity.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sendIntent, "Share with:"));

I ran into the same problem with Direct Share, and found that it only seems to work for the target intent passed to createChooser().
My kludgy work-around was to lookup "com.android.mms" and pass that intent to createChooser() and the others in the targetedShareIntents array, which means that at least Direct Share works for text messages.
Note for some apps, not setting the class name in targetedShareIntents means you end up with Android System appearing in chooser instead.
For me this solution isn't good enough, and I'm leaning towards not excluding my own app from the list. Hopefully my efforts will lead someone to something better.
Code below is a variation on examples found here:
Custom filtering of intent chooser based on installed Android package name
I see here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/23036439 that saulpower may have a better solution, but I can't get it to work with my UI.
private void shareExludingApp(Intent intent, String packageNameToExclude, String title) {
List<Intent> targetedShareIntents = new ArrayList<Intent>();
List<ResolveInfo> resInfo = getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(intent, 0);
Intent directShare = null;
if (!resInfo.isEmpty()) {
for (ResolveInfo info : resInfo) {
Intent targetedShare = new Intent(intent);
if (!info.activityInfo.packageName.startsWith(packageNameToExclude)) {
targetedShare.setPackage(info.activityInfo.packageName);
targetedShare.setClassName(info.activityInfo.packageName,
info.activityInfo.name);
if (directShare == null && info.activityInfo.packageName.equals("com.android.mms")) {
directShare = targetedShare;
} else {
targetedShareIntents.add(targetedShare);
}
}
}
}
if (targetedShareIntents.size() > 0) {
if (directShare == null) {
directShare = targetedShareIntents.remove(0);
}
Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(directShare, title);
chooserIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS,
targetedShareIntents.toArray(new Parcelable[] {}));
startActivity(chooserIntent);
}
else {
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, title));
}
}
Usage:
shareExludingApp(intent, getPackageName(), "Share via");

Android - Using dynamic text field for sharing using chooser dialog

If the user chooses Twitter, I want to send an abbreviated text field (due to character limit). From this SO post -- Branching the Android Share Intent extras depending on which method they choose to share -- I learned that I can implement targeted intents. However, when I use the code below, a number of apps show as "Android System" and Twitter does not show up in the dialog. I even removed the if block trying to catch Twitter, and it still did not appear.
List<Intent> targetedShareIntents = new ArrayList<Intent>();
Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sharingIntent.setType("text/plain");
PackageManager pm = rootView.getContext().getPackageManager();
List<ResolveInfo> activityList = pm.queryIntentActivities(sharingIntent, 0);
for(final ResolveInfo app : activityList){
String packageName = app.activityInfo.packageName;
Intent targetedShareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
targetedShareIntent.setType("text/plain");
if(TextUtils.equals(packageName, TWITTER_PACKAGE_NAME)){
targetedShareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, getTextToShare(data, "Twitter"));
} else {
targetedShareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, data.getTitle());
targetedShareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, getTextToShare(data));
}
targetedShareIntent.setPackage(packageName);
targetedShareIntents.add(targetedShareIntent);
}
Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(targetedShareIntents.remove(targetedShareIntents.size() - 1), "Share this story");
chooserIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, targetedShareIntents.toArray(new Parcelable[]{}));
startActivity(chooserIntent);
I'm not really sure what's going on with the following:
Intent.createChooser(targetedShareIntents.remove(targetedShareIntents.size() - 1), "Share this story");
chooserIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, targetedShareIntents.toArray(new Parcelable[]{}));
In the SO post, targetedShareIntents.remove(0) was used although targetedShareIntents.remove(targetedShareIntents.size() - 1) was proposed as a more reusable solution. Any help or explanations on this is greatly appreciated.

I think TextUtils.equals(packageName, TWITTER_PACKAGE_NAME) can't find exactly com.twitter.android package name, so you need to try below code for match Twitter package name
if(packageName.toLowerCase().startsWith("com.twitter")){
targetedShareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, getTextToShare(data, "Twitter"));
} else {
targetedShareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, data.getTitle());
targetedShareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, getTextToShare(data));
}

Creating custom chooser for share intent by package name

I have a Text in my android activity and I want give the user option to share it on social apps like whatsapp, line, facebook, twitter etc.
But I want to create a custom chooser so that it won't show unintended apps in the chooser.
I'm aware of this snippet
Intent shareIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share via"));
How can I make it so that in the chooser it'd only show the apps which I can specify by their package names.
Thanks

Even though I think this question is duplicated, but since I can't find the duplicated question yet, let me provide an answer first.
List<Intent> targetedShareIntents = new ArrayList<Intent>();
Intent shareInent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareInent.setType("text/plain");
List<ResolveInfo> resInfo = activity.getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(shareInent, 0);
// put the name of the packages you want in this ArrayList
ArrayList<String> wantedPackage = new ArrayList<>();
if (!resInfo.isEmpty()) {
for (ResolveInfo info : resInfo) {
Intent targetedShare = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
targetedShare.setType("text/plain");
String infoPackageName = info.activityInfo.packageName.toLowerCase();
if (wantedPackage.contains(infoPackageName)) {
targetedShare.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "put your text here");
targetedShare.setPackage(info.activityInfo.packageName.toLowerCase());
targetedShareIntents.add(targetedShare);
resPackageNames.add(infoPackageName);
}
}
Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(targetedShareIntents.remove(0), "Chooser title");
chooserIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, targetedShareIntents.toArray(new Parcelable[]{}));
startActivity(chooserIntent);
}

Share text/image on Facebook

I am new on progamming android and I have some problems on sharing contents.
I did an android app that involves a test. In the last activity I'd like to offer the opportunity to share the users results via shareintent, here a frame of the code:
display= (TextView) findViewById (R.id.tvDisplay);
display.setText("Well Done, your score is" + score ); //score is an int
sharebutton= (Button)findViewById(R.id.sharebutton);
sharebutton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
results = display.getText().toString();
Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,"My score in the test is" + results);
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "TEST");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share.."));
}
});
The problem is that when I click on the button, I can share the exact text in all of sharer tools (email, wapp, etc..), but not through Facebook. Why?
I tried to allow to post image and text on the FB wall but I can't give the exact path of the image that is on the drawable Folder.
Thank you for all the advices.

It depends upon Facebook app whether they are accepting text or not via intent,I know they accept images and bitmap files but for text they don't accept it.I've already tried this earlier in one of my own project but couldn't supply text via intent.
The Facebook application does not handle either the EXTRA_SUBJECT or EXTRA_TEXT fields.
I have already answer this question here.May be you can follow this link in case you need reference.

first store image in sdcard then share image on facebook
File filePath = new File(Environment
.getExternalStorageDirectory(),
"/foldername/imagename.jpg");
// share("facebook", filePath.toString());
System.out.println(filePath);
List<Intent> targetedShareIntents = new ArrayList<Intent>();
Intent share = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
share.setType("image/jpeg");
List<ResolveInfo> resInfo = getActivity().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("facebook")
|| info.activityInfo.name.toLowerCase()
.contains("facebook")) {
targetedShare.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,
"Sample Photo");
targetedShare.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,
"This photo is created by App Name");
targetedShare.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM,
Uri.fromFile(filePath));
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);
}

Android Intent directly to Facebook sharing?

Following code works perfectly,
Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sharingIntent.setType("text/plain");
sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "text");
sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Title");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share using"));
but it open a list and from this list I have to select Facebook and then everything is smooth.
But is there any config changes that can open Facebook sharing directly instead of going through the menu.

Try the following code, now the intent will open Facebook directly.
List<Intent> targetedShareIntents = new ArrayList<Intent>();
Intent facebookIntent = getShareIntent("facebook", "subject", "text_or_url");
// subject may not work, but if you have a url place it in text_or_url
if(facebookIntent != null)
targetedShareIntents.add(facebookIntent);
Intent chooser = Intent.createChooser(targetedShareIntents.remove(0), "Delen");
chooser.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, targetedShareIntents.toArray(new Parcelable[]{}));
startActivity(chooser);
// To precisely get the facebook intent use the following code
private Intent getShareIntent(String type, String subject, String text)
{
boolean found = false;
Intent share = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
share.setType("text/plain");
// gets the list of intents that can be loaded.
List<ResolveInfo> resInfo = getActivity().getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(share, 0);
System.out.println("resinfo: " + resInfo);
if (!resInfo.isEmpty()){
for (ResolveInfo info : resInfo) {
if (info.activityInfo.packageName.toLowerCase().contains(type) ||
info.activityInfo.name.toLowerCase().contains(type) ) {
share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject);
share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, text);
share.setPackage(info.activityInfo.packageName);
found = true;
break;
}
}
if (!found)
return null;
return share;
}
return null;
}
Above code is extracted from this stackoverflow-post

this should be possible, if you get first all activities, that supports your intent and then get the correct and do a explicit call. To get all activities use context.getPackageManager.queryIntentActivities(Intent, int). The coding shouldn't be a big problem.
Check this link: PackageManager docu