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Share image puts path in to address

I'm having this issue where sharing an image from my app to Gmail puts the path of the image in the To field.
Here's the code that I'm using:
Intent shareIntent = new Intent();
shareIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.setType("image/*");
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,"Beam Dental Insurance Card");
shareIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION); // temp permission for receiving app to read this file
shareIntent.setDataAndType(insuranceCardImageUri, getActivity().getContentResolver().getType(insuranceCardImageUri));
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, insuranceCardImageUri);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share Insurance Card"));
And here's what I get.
The To: field gets filled in with the path to the image with the "content:" removed from the front. I've tried setting the EXTRA_EMAIL on the intent but that doesn't help.

First, replace:
shareIntent.setDataAndType(insuranceCardImageUri, getActivity().getContentResolver().getType(insuranceCardImageUri));
with:
shareIntent.setType(getActivity().getContentResolver().getType(insuranceCardImageUri));
as ACTION_SEND does not use a Uri in the data field of the Intent.
Then, remove:
shareIntent.setType("image/*");
as you do not need to call setType() twice (or even call setType() and setDataAndType(), as you have it here).
Also, bear in mind:
If the Uri is not coming from your app (e.g., your own ContentProvider), third-party apps like Gmail may not be able to use it, as they may not have permission to access it. This is not significantly different than passing a URL to a third-party app, where the URL requires an authenticated user session to be useful.
There is no requirement for ACTION_SEND implementations to honor both EXTRA_STREAM andEXTRA_TEXT`.

You can share image using share intent, but you've to decode image to a localized Bitmap
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Hey view/download this image");
String path = Images.Media.insertImage(getContentResolver(), loadedImage, "", null);
Uri screenshotUri = Uri.parse(path);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, screenshotUri);
intent.setType("image/*");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share image via..."));
loadedImage is the loaded bitmap from http://eofdreams.com/data_images/dreams/face/face-03.jpg
acoording to Nitin Misra

How to attach an image directly (automatically) to an email on Android?

I would like to ask if anyone knows how to attach an image directly to a send email portal instead of opening up the gallery for users to select?
Thanks a lot.

use the below code
File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(),"image.png");
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("image/*");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("file:///"+file));
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share Picture Via Email"));

Problems sharing combined text and image with SHARE INTENT on Twitter

I want to give the user the possibility to share a Image and a Text with Twitter and Facebook.
Actually my code can launch Android's share intent and if the user selects Facebook, all works fine, the Image is attached and the text is shown on the body of the new status.
But something is wrong with Twitter, if i only put a Image all works fine, the image is detected by twitter and automatically uploaded to twipic, then twitter posts the link of the image on the tweet. But if i put a image and a text, then, twitter doesn't detect the image and it only puts the text on the tweet, the image is ignored. What is wrong?
this is my code:
Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
Uri screenshotUri = Uri.parse("file:///sdcard/image.jpg");
sharingIntent.setType("image/*");
sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Body text of the new status");
sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, screenshotUri);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share image using"));

You can still try with ACTION_SEND, without using the ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE.
ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE resulted in a force close, when I tried to create new intents for sharing to Gmail, G+, etc.
This worked perfect for me:
Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
Uri uri = Uri.parse("file:///sdcard/image.jpg");
shareIntent.setType("*/*");
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Body text of the new status");
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
return shareIntent;

Specify MIME type also for the text. "text/plain" is the type of text data MIME. Try using "*/*" as MIME, so you can send any generic data type.
Also try changing ACTION_SEND to ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE which specialized for delivering multiple data.
More info about ACTION_SEND_MULTPLE and handling MIME types:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html

Android Email vs MMS Raw Attachment?

I have this code to send an emai with an audio attachment that is coming from the raw folder:
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
i.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
i.setType("Audio/basic");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "mySubject");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "myBody");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("android.resource://[my_package]/raw/sound"));
startActivity(i);
This code works fine.
I tried to adapt the same code so that I can send MMS message with audio attachment from the raw folder.
I came up with this:
String uri= "mmsto:";
Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, Uri.parse(uri));
i.putExtra("sms_body", "myBody");
i.putExtra("compose_mode", true);
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse"android.resource://[my_package]/raw/sound"));
startActivity(i);
The code opens an SMS application. However, there isn't any attachment to the message !
Am I doing it right? Please help me with that.

To those who might be interested:
MMS Functionality is a bit unreliable, not well-documented feature in Android. So, the existed solutions are supposed to work but they will not work all the time on all the devices. You can't depend on them, yet.

How to add .pdf extension when sending an attachment from Android?

I am trying to send a pdf as an attachment from Android. Here is the code:
String[] mailto = {"me#gmail.com"};
Uri uri = Uri.parse("android.resource://com.mywebsite.sendemail/raw/mypdf");
Intent emailIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, mailto);
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "My Subject");
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "My Body");
emailIntent.setType("application/pdf");
emailIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send email using:"));
Now this works but the problem is that the attachment is called mypdf instead of mypdf.pdf. I cannot figure out how to send it with it's extension... That's what I need help with. Thanks.

I am unconvinced what you want will be possible, since you are pulling the PDF from a resource. If you copy the PDF to a local file (with the correct extension) and send that, you should get the extension in the resulting message. But straight out of the resource...I suspect there's no way to add the extension.

When ever I attempt to use the .putExtra methodology it always crashes my application with a "Force Close" message. If I use something like:
String mtUri = "mailto:someone#gmail.com?subject=Some Subject&body=Some text&";
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SENDTO, Uri.parse(mtUri));
startActivity(intent);
It seems to work fine. I do still have the problem of attaching a file and could use some help figurint out the "attachment=file:///..." syntax.
Thanks,