Sharing on Android is extremely easy.
If you've ever hit a share button on the Android before, you'll notice most of them pop up a menu like this:
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As you can see, this has the standard Google Apps as well as custom apps - like Facebook and some joke app I downloaded.
To share to other apps, you declare an Intent with the action "ACTION_SEND"
This will send plain text "Text" with the subject "Subject. It will pop up a chooser to select anything that has implemented an ACTION_SEND receiver for text.
One thing to note with the Facebook application: there's a bug!! It will show up blank if you have a link in your text unless you only send the link with nothing else.
Other types of note are: "application/twitter" and "text/html".
If you wish to create a "Twitter only" sharing button, check out this StackOverflow question - it answers that perfectly.![]()
If you've ever hit a share button on the Android before, you'll notice most of them pop up a menu like this:
As you can see, this has the standard Google Apps as well as custom apps - like Facebook and some joke app I downloaded.
To share to other apps, you declare an Intent with the action "ACTION_SEND"
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, "Subject");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share using"));
This will send plain text "Text" with the subject "Subject. It will pop up a chooser to select anything that has implemented an ACTION_SEND receiver for text.
One thing to note with the Facebook application: there's a bug!! It will show up blank if you have a link in your text unless you only send the link with nothing else.
Other types of note are: "application/twitter" and "text/html".
If you wish to create a "Twitter only" sharing button, check out this StackOverflow question - it answers that perfectly.
