Sharing URL to Facebook, Twitter and email in Andr

Question

Is there anything similar to getsharekit.com for Android? It allows to share URL's to social networking sites. Is there anything similar to this or do I need to code separately for facebook, Twitter and email?

Answer 1

For facebook you can use `

https://m.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=website_url&t=titleOfThePost

website url could be any thing refereing to any resource for example if you want to get an image from internet and sharung it on your wall .

hope this would help

Answer 2

I don't know if that's what you mean but you can use the Android built-in sharing menu...

You can share a URL to Facebook, Twitter, Gmail and more (as long as the apps are installed on your device) using Intents:

Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
i.setType("text/plain");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Sharing URL");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "http://www.url.com");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "Share URL"));

If the app you want to share to is not installed on the user's device, for example - facebook, then you'll have to use Facebook SDK.

If you want your Activity to handle text data shared from other apps as well, you can add this to your AndroidManifest.xml:

<activity android:name=".ShareLink">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
        <data android:mimeType="text/plain" />
    </intent-filter>
</activity>

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

You can use also ShareCompat class from support library.

ShareCompat.IntentBuilder.from(activity)
    .setType("text/plain")
    .setChooserTitle("Share URL")
    .setText("http://www.url.com")
    .startChooser();

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v4/app/ShareCompat.html

Answer 4

For me this works just fine:

startActivity(Intent.createChooser(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND,
    Uri.parse("http://...")),"Share URL"));// share url is on your own

Answer 5

Here is my implementation, you can add more apps if you wish by just adding package names. This code also sorts the applications according to their names.

    List<Intent> targetShareIntents = new ArrayList<Intent>();
    Intent shareIntent = new Intent();
    shareIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
    PackageManager pm = getActivity().getPackageManager();
    List<ResolveInfo> resInfos = pm.queryIntentActivities(shareIntent, 0);
    if (!resInfos.isEmpty()) {
        System.out.println("Have package");
        for (ResolveInfo resInfo : resInfos) {
            String packageName = resInfo.activityInfo.packageName;
            Log.i("Package Name", packageName);

            if (packageName.contains("com.twitter.android") || packageName.contains("com.facebook.katana")
                    || packageName.contains("com.whatsapp") || packageName.contains("com.google.android.apps.plus")
                    || packageName.contains("com.google.android.talk") || packageName.contains("com.slack")
                    || packageName.contains("com.google.android.gm") || packageName.contains("com.facebook.orca")
                    || packageName.contains("com.yahoo.mobile") || packageName.contains("com.skype.raider")
                    || packageName.contains("com.android.mms")|| packageName.contains("com.linkedin.android")
                    || packageName.contains("com.google.android.apps.messaging")) {
                Intent intent = new Intent();

                intent.setComponent(new ComponentName(packageName, resInfo.activityInfo.name));
                intent.putExtra("AppName", resInfo.loadLabel(pm).toString());
                intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
                intent.setType("text/plain");
                intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "https://website.com/");
                intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, getString(R.string.share_text));
                intent.setPackage(packageName);
                targetShareIntents.add(intent);
            }
        }
        if (!targetShareIntents.isEmpty()) {
            Collections.sort(targetShareIntents, new Comparator<Intent>() {
                @Override
                public int compare(Intent o1, Intent o2) {
                    return o1.getStringExtra("AppName").compareTo(o2.getStringExtra("AppName"));
                }
            });
            Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(targetShareIntents.remove(0), "Select app to share");
            chooserIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, targetShareIntents.toArray(new Parcelable[]{}));
            startActivity(chooserIntent);
        } else {
            Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "No app to share.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
    }

Answer 6

You can try this...

private void shareTextUrl() {
        Intent share = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        share.setType("text/plain");
        share.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_WHEN_TASK_RESET);

        share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Title Of The Post");
        share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "<source url>");

        startActivity(Intent.createChooser(share, "Share text to..."));
    }