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sttooo
sttooo

Reputation: 53

Android Facebook share: activity not found

I have problem with my function for posting data on Facebook:

    public void postData() {
    try {
        Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        i.setClassName("com.facebook.katana",
                "com.facebook.katana.ShareLinkActivity");
        i.setType("text/*");
        i.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "http://sample_url.com");
        startActivity(i);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Intent i= new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
        i.setData(Uri.parse("http://sample_url.com));
        startActivity(i);
    }
}

Every time I get information that activity com.facebook.katana.ShareLinkActivity can't be run and I should add code to the Android manifest. Facebook application is installed on the phone.

In AndroidManifest.xml:

    <activity android:name="com.facebook.katana.ShareLinkActivity" >
    </activity>

Exception in LogCat:

01-30 14:46:00.903: E/AndroidRuntime(11626): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
01-30 14:46:00.903: E/AndroidRuntime(11626): android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: Unable to find explicit activity class {com.facebook.katana/com.facebook.katana.ShareLinkActivity}; have you declared this activity in your AndroidManifest.xml?
01-30 14:46:00.903: E/AndroidRuntime(11626):    at android.app.Instrumentation.checkStartActivityResult(Instrumentation.java:1634)
01-30 14:46:00.903: E/AndroidRuntime(11626):    at android.app.Instrumentation.execStartActivity(Instrumentation.java:1510)
01-30 14:46:00.903: E/AndroidRuntime(11626):    at android.app.Activity.startActivityFromChild(Activity.java:3531)
01-30 14:46:00.903: E/AndroidRuntime(11626):    at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:3283)
01-30 14:46:00.903: E/AndroidRuntime(11626):    at android.app.Activity.startActivity(Activity.java:3370)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4434

Answers (4)

nickfox
nickfox

Reputation: 2835

Just so we are all on the same page with this. Facebook has intentionally broken this and refuses to fix it and shame on them for doing so.

https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/332619626816423

Upvotes: 0

Sameeh Harfoush
Sameeh Harfoush

Reputation: 610

for all of those who are using appcelerator here how got it to work...

var intFB = Ti.Android.createIntent({
                       action : Ti.Android.ACTION_SEND,
                        packageName : "com.facebook.katana",                        
                        type : "text/plain"
                    });                    
                    intFB.putExtra(Ti.Android.EXTRA_TEXT, "http://www.google.com");
                    //facebook only supports LINKS(!!!)
                    Ti.Android.currentActivity.startActivity(intFB);

Upvotes: 1

adruzh
adruzh

Reputation: 1075

Finally I got this code to work:

        Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        sharingIntent.setType("text/plain");
        sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject");
        sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Text...");
        sharingIntent.setPackage("com.facebook.katana");
        startActivity(sharingIntent);

Main points are setPackage and setType - now Android chooses right activity from Facebook package.

Upvotes: 10

Usama Sarwar
Usama Sarwar

Reputation: 9020

Yes...you should declare com.facebook.katana.ShareLinkActivity in AndroidManifest.xml file. This should do.

Edit:

O o ... problem lies in setClassName method. Replace your following line

  i.setClassName("com.facebook.katana","com.facebook.katana.ShareLinkActivity");

with this one:

   i.setClassName("com.facebook.katana","ShareLinkActivity");

As second parameter in the method is className and you were also passing package name with the class name which the debugger was unable to find. As class name is ShareLinkActivity not com.facebook.katana.ShareLinkActivity.

This will finally solve your problem.

Upvotes: 0

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