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Matt
Matt

Reputation: 2036

Android: Share Text & Image (URL) Via Intent

I am trying to share text with an image via an ACTION_SEND intent. The catch is that the image is represented by a URL, not a local URI. The code I currently have is:

Intent shareIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.setType("*/*");
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, text); // <- String
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, url); // <- URL object

Now I've tried a few variations on this. I've tried with setType("image/*"), I've tried parsing a Uri from the URL, I've tried passing the URL string itself, etc. Nothing so far seems to work. However, when sending to twitter I do see the text, just not the image.

Edit: Apparently the original description was not helpful enough, so....when I launch the above intent it successfully opens a chosen application like Twitter, or Facebook, or Gmail, or Text Messaging, but an image appars in NONE of these apps. The text appears in Twitter - I can't remember if the text appears elsewhere, but my focus at this moment is on the image part anyway.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 11363

Answers (2)

user3906734
user3906734

Reputation: 1

Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND_MULTIPLE);
sharingIntent.setType("image/*");
sharingIntent.setPackage("com.whatsapp");               
sharingIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_WHEN_TASK_RESET);
sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,videoPos);
sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM,getImageUri(getApplicationContext(), bitmap));

Upvotes: -2

Nahuel Barrios
Nahuel Barrios

Reputation: 1910

You won't be able to share on Facebook in that way because of Facebook's policy as it says in a known bug:

API does not support pre-filling the message for users

Upvotes: 5

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