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Michael Nana
Michael Nana

Reputation: 1987

Text to be shared not transferring to facebook

I'm building a share feature on my app which I got working using this

Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
                  shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
                  shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "URLyouWantToShare");
                  startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share..."));

As expected it opens a dialog with options to use a service to share. Right now I'm testing it on the emulator and I get the facebook option and the sms option. When I choose the sms option , the text "URLyouWantToShare" is transferred to the field where the user enters the message. However when I choose the facebook option, it opens up the view to share but the text is not transferred. How can I get the text transferred to Facebook to be shared?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 74

Answers (1)

ya-ivanov
ya-ivanov

Reputation: 516

There is no way to fix that :( . I have tried it myself. Facebook, intentionally, for some reason, doesn't allow it. It should work, if you set ONLY a link, as text, but it won't work, just for text. Pretty annoying.

Upvotes: 1

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