I have an Android app and it supports sending text via other apps. It therefore uses the ACTION_SEND intent and the EXTRA_TEXT field. The chooser presents me with all apps that can handle such an intent. Those are Twitter, Email, ... and Facebook. But when I select Facebook it opens the browser and goes to the following page:
http://m.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=mytext
It shows my text and the submit button. But when I press the submit button nothing happens. The page just loads again.
I think maybe it is only possible to send URLs via the Facebook App. Could that be?
Did anyone manage to send text via ACTION_SEND through the Facebook Android app?
To make the Share work with the facebook app, you only need to have suply at least one link:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("text/plain");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Wonderful search engine http://www.google.fr/");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share with"));
This will show the correct sharing window but when you click on share, nothing happends (I also tried with the official Twitter App, it does not work).
The only way I found to make the Facebook app sharing work is to share only a link with no text:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("text/plain");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "http://www.google.fr/");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share with"));
It will show the following window and the Share button will work:
Apparently it automatically takes an image and text from the link to populate the share.
If you want to share only text, you will have to use the facebook api: https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk
06/2013 :
This is a bug from Facebook, not your code
Facebook will NOT fix this bug, they say it is "by design" that they broke the Android share system : https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/332619626816423
use the SDK or share only URL.
Tips: you could cheat a little using the web page title as text for the post.
First you need query Intent to handler sharing option. Then use package name to filter Intent then we will have only one Intent that handler sharing option!
Share via Facebook
Intent shareIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
shareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Content to share");
PackageManager pm = v.getContext().getPackageManager();
List<ResolveInfo> activityList = pm.queryIntentActivities(shareIntent, 0);
for (final ResolveInfo app : activityList) {
if ((app.activityInfo.name).contains("facebook")) {
final ActivityInfo activity = app.activityInfo;
final ComponentName name = new ComponentName(activity.applicationInfo.packageName, activity.name);
shareIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);
shareIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_RESET_TASK_IF_NEEDED);
shareIntent.setComponent(name);
v.getContext().startActivity(shareIntent);
break;
}
}
Bonus - Share via Twitter
Intent shareIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
shareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Content to share");
PackageManager pm = v.getContext().getPackageManager();
List<ResolveInfo> activityList = pm.queryIntentActivities(shareIntent, 0);
for (final ResolveInfo app : activityList) {
if ("com.twitter.android.PostActivity".equals(app.activityInfo.name)) {
final ActivityInfo activity = app.activityInfo;
final ComponentName name = new ComponentName(activity.applicationInfo.packageName, activity.name);
shareIntent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);
shareIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_RESET_TASK_IF_NEEDED);
shareIntent.setComponent(name);
v.getContext().startActivity(shareIntent);
break;
}
}
And if you want to find how to share via another sharing application, find it there Tép Blog - Advance share via Android
EDITED: with the new release of the official Facebook app for Android (July 14 2011) IT WORKS!!!
OLD: The examples above do not work if the user chooses the Facebook app for sharing, but they do work if the user chooses the Seesmic app to post to Facebook. I guess Seesmic have a better implementation of the Facebook API than Facebook!
So I have a work around, but it assumes you have control over the page you're sharing...
If you format your EXTRA_TEXT like so...
String myText = "Hey!\nThis is a neat pic!";
String extraText = "http://www.example.com/myPicPage.html?extraText=\n\n" + myText;
... then on non-Facebook apps, your text should appear something like this:
http://www.example.com/myPicPage.html?extraText=
Hey!
This is a neat pic!
Now if you update your website such that requests with the extraText query parameter return the contents of extraText in the page's meta data.
<!-- Make sure to sanitize your inputs! e.g. http://xkcd.com/327/ -->
<meta name="title" content="Hey! this is a neat pic!">
Then when Facebook escapes that url to generate the dialog, it'll read the title meta data and embed it into your share dialog.
I realize this is a pretty yuck solution, so take with a grain of salt...
It appears that the Facebook app handles this intent incorrectly. The most reliable way seems to be to use the Facebook API for Android.
The SDK is at this link: http://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk
Under 'usage', there is this:
Display a Facebook dialog.
The SDK supports several WebView html
dialogs for user interactions, such as
creating a wall post. This is intended
to provided quick Facebook
functionality without having to
implement a native Android UI and pass
data to facebook directly though the
APIs.
This seems like the best way to do it -- display a dialog that will post to the wall. The only issue is that they may have to log in first
Check this out : By this we can check activity results also....
// Open all sharing option for user
Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sharingIntent.setType("text/plain");
sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, ShortDesc+" from "+BusinessName);
sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, ShortDesc+" "+ShareURL);
sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TITLE, ShortDesc+" "+ShareURL);
startActivityForResult(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share via"),1000);
/**
* Get the result when we share any data to another activity
* */
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
switch(requestCode) {
case 1000:
if(resultCode == RESULT_OK)
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Activity 1 returned OK", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
else
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Activity 1 returned NOT OK", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
break;
case 1002:
if(resultCode == RESULT_OK)
Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Activity 2 returned OK", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
break;
}// end switch
}// end onActivityResult
ShareDialog shareDialog = new ShareDialog(this);
if(ShareDialog.canShow(ShareLinkContent.class)) {
ShareLinkContent linkContent = new ShareLinkContent.Builder().setContentTitle(strTitle).setContentDescription(strDescription)
.setContentUrl(Uri.parse(strNewsHtmlUrl))
.build();
shareDialog.show(linkContent);
}
It appears that it's a bug in the Facebook app that was reported in April 2011 and has still yet to be fixed by the Android Facebook developers.
The only work around for the moment is to use their SDK.
if you want to show text put # at the begging of the message you want it will share it as Hashtag
Related
I have the following code:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("text/plain");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, urlToShare);
// determine fb app
List<ResolveInfo> matches = context.getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(intent, 0);
for (ResolveInfo info : matches) {
String pkg = info.activityInfo.packageName.toLowerCase();
if (pkg.startsWith("com.facebook.katana") || pkg.startsWith("com.facebook.lite")) {
intent.setPackage(info.activityInfo.packageName);
}
}
context.startActivity(intent);
About 100-200 users press the share button of which more than 70% have an app installed. That would mean 70-150 shares per day. However I get maybe one share per day! I think that most of the time the FB app ignores the link, it only opens the share dialog but WITHOUT THE LINK. On my mobile device it works ok (the link is part of the share) but for others it is not.
Am I doing something wrong? Or Facebook doesn't allow to share links like this?
My question is simple, i want to make an intent to instagram app from my app, but i want to show the timeline (just like we are open the instagram app manually), how can i do this?
This method is working to show an user profile, but i want to show the timeline.
private void createInstagramIntent() {
//Creamos intent de instagram y lanzamos la activity
Uri uri = Uri.parse("http://instagram.com/_u/javierjsanchezg");
Intent share = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);
share.setPackage("com.instagram.android");
startActivity(share);
}
Instagram is mainly a Photo Sharing App and you need to specify the content type. Check the code below. It will open the Instagram App Home Screen of the App is installed in the device and says no app can perform this action if not installed.
Intent is just a way to connect with other apps and it has minimized
control over the other App.
Uri uri = Uri.parse("http://www.google.com");
Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sharingIntent.setType("*/*");
sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Hi Android Share intent");
sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
sharingIntent.setPackage("com.instagram.android");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Choose"));
Happy Coding..!!
You can simplify your code to :
startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.google.com")));
Now as per the user's timeline it depends if it is private or public in order to view it. Hope it helps.
I am trying to share a text containing a link via facebook.
My code work perfectly with the facebook messenger application. But not via Facebook app.
In Facebook app i am getting a sharing view with an empty edittext. I Don't want to integrate facebook api and give sharing authorisation. I don't want to do that. I think it can be done only via extras and intent.
My sharing code:
private void ShareWebView(){
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("text/plain");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, mTitle);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share with"));
}
You cannot. See Android and Facebook share intent
And especially this link provided in one of the comment : http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/332619626816423
Walkaround: If you do not want to implement it using android SDK
and you want to use
private void ShareWebView(){
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("text/plain");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, mTitle); // MUST contain 1 url
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share with"));
}
make sure that mTitle contains one LINK.
Why to do that: Although the fact that facebook doesn't work properly it grubs the first url or look like url from the mTitle and post-it as share url. It also automatically catch a subtitle and a photo from that url so the post/share is quite acceptable most of the time avoiding long code implementations!
I am having trouble when I try to pass a text string from within an EditText to either Facebook or Twitter via an intent. In fact, the only option which works currently is email.
The code I am using is below:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("text/plain");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, textVariable.getText());
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject Title");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share Text"));
I have tried it with and without the subject line. Any thoughts?
Thank you :)
To share the text on Facebook and Twitter the way you are using is not correct. You need to try out the other way of sharing.
Just refer Link it will guide you on how to share the text on facebook & twitter using intent.
The following code should do the trick!
try {
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setComponent(new ComponentName("com.twitter.android",
"com.twitter.applib.composer.TextFirstComposerActivity"));
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, text);
context.startActivity(intent);
// Success!
} catch (Exception e) {
// official twitter code missing
}
Look Share bitmap with text on Twitter, Email & bitmap on Facebook in Android using Intent
You can share image with text caption on twitter but on facebook you can not share text caption using Intent, for that you have to use Facebook SDK.
I use intent and Action.SEND for sharing my custom message on social networks like WhatsApp , twitter, Facebook and GMail. Everything is ok on Gmail and other applications except Facebook! How can I customize my code to share something on Facebook as well? I do share on Facebook using Facebook SDK with no problem, but I want to do it using an intent.
this is what I use:
Intent sendIntent = new Intent();
sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, knowTitle+"Read the full article via MomsApp by EnfaMama A+ at http://meadjohnsonasia.com.my/mobileapp");
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "I just read "+knowTitle);
sendIntent.setType("*/*");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sendIntent, "Share Your Favorite Article"));
What I did was actually to intercept the chosen target of the intenthandlers, you can do that by using your actionprovider. Let's say you created an item that with an onclick starts the intent. In order to do that, you can instantiate an actionprovider to do so. This actionprovider can have a setOnShareTargetSelectedListener to intercept any intents that you want to handle differently (or not at all ^^). See the code below for how to configure your actionprovider.
actionProvider.setShareIntent(createShareIntent());
actionProvider.setOnShareTargetSelectedListener(new OnShareTargetSelectedListener(){
#Override
public boolean onShareTargetSelected(ShareActionProvider source,
Intent intent) {
if ("com.facebook.katana".equals(intent.getComponent().getPackageName()) && mfacebooksharer != null) {
mfacebooksharer.shareStatus(subject, text);
return true;
}
return false;
}
});
Whenever facebook is chosen, I use my mfacebooksharer to handle the intent and follow the facebook API.
Ofcourse, that actionrpovider needs to have an intent. (Just like you wanted to work with an intent). I use the method below to create the intent.
private Intent createShareIntent() {
intentsetter.setIntentleave(true);
Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
shareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject);
shareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, text);
return shareIntent;
}
As per the Facebook's Platform Policies, you cannot pre-fill the share dialog using
Intent.EXTRA_TEXT. It is usually thought to be a bug, but as per a Bug Report filed here and also, here, Facebook clearly mentions that this is not the case (it's not a bug).
You can read more about their Platform Policies specifically, Platform Policy IV.2
Quote from Platform Policy IV.2:
You must not pre-fill any of the fields associated with the following
products, unless the user manually generated the content earlier in
the workflow: Stream stories (user_message parameter for
Facebook.streamPublish and FB.Connect.streamPublish, and message
parameter for stream.publish), Photos (caption), Videos (description),
Notes (title and content), Links (comment), and Jabber/XMPP.
These fields are intended for users to express themselves. Pre-filling
these fields erodes the authenticity of the user voice.
The only way you can share stories from your App is by integrating the Facebook SDK, which as per your post, you are already able to successfully. That is the only option available (unfortunately).
Using Intent in Android, you can share only a link without text:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("text/plain");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "http://www.google.ca");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share with"));
It'll work. If you want to share text and link , you have to use the Facebook SDK for Android: https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk