Share Text on Facebook from Android App via ACTION

Question

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 happends. 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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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);

}

Answer 4

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