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Martin Erlic
Martin Erlic

Reputation: 5665

Trying to share image with intent Android

I'm trying to share an image with an intent to social media. It's asking for the path to the image, and I've retrieved the image URL from my object, in the form of files.parsetfss.com/77c6003f-0d1b-4b55-b09c-16337b3a2eb8/tfss-7267d2df-9807-4dc0-ad6f-0fd47d83d20f-3eb7b9e4-d770-420c-a0a0-9ca4fc4a6a0a_1.png, for example. The share intent displays but when I open any other app to share, I get a crash with no logcat error. What could be going wrong?

Intent share = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
share.setType("image/*");
share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, marketFeedItem.getDesign().getImage());
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(share, "Share your design!"));

Updated Answer. This is what I did to get it to work:

  ImageView imageView = (ImageView) feedItemView.findViewById(R.id.image);
                Drawable mDrawable = imageView.getDrawable();
                Bitmap mBitmap = ((BitmapDrawable)mDrawable).getBitmap();

                String path = MediaStore.Images.Media.insertImage(getContentResolver(),
                        mBitmap, "Design", null);

                Uri uri = Uri.parse(path);

                Intent share = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
                share.setType("image/*");
                share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
                share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "I found something cool!");
                startActivity(Intent.createChooser(share, "Share Your Design!"));

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1330

Answers (2)

Android Leo
Android Leo

Reputation: 676

URL of your parse server for the image file is not a valid for share intent, so save loaded bitmap temporary in your device then share image using that saved bitmap URL. After image shared you can delete saved image from your device

Upvotes: 1

CommonsWare
CommonsWare

Reputation: 1006614

If getImage() is returning the long string that you have in your question, that is not a valid URL, as it lacks a scheme.

According to the docs, you need to pass a content: Uri in the EXTRA_STREAM extra. In practice, a file: Uri frequently also works. I would expect you to run into problems with other schemes, like https: or http:.

Upvotes: 2

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