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Maihan Nijat
Maihan Nijat

Reputation: 9334

No apps can perform this action Android Intent using Kotlin

I am using the following code snippets from Android official documentation to share content through applications using Intent but it says "No apps can perform this action." on a physical device. I have messengers, email client and text message clients installed.

val intent = Intent().apply {
    intent.action = Intent.ACTION_SEND
    intent.type = "text/plain"
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Text to share")
}

startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Sharing"))

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2265

Answers (4)

Ben.Slama.Jihed
Ben.Slama.Jihed

Reputation: 534

you can replace startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "Sharing")) by startActivity(i)

Upvotes: 0

ininmm
ininmm

Reputation: 552

This is what I know:

As Fredy Mederos said, the value that you are modified is the Activity.getIntent, not the new Intent.

You should write like this: 

val intent = Intent().apply {
        action = Intent.ACTION_SEND
        type = "text/plain"
        putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Text to share")
    }

or more precise:

val intent = Intent().apply {
        this.action = Intent.ACTION_SEND
        this.type = "text/plain"
        this.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Text to share")
    }

the this is pointed to your initialized new Intent().

Upvotes: 1

Fredy Mederos
Fredy Mederos

Reputation: 2626

I think you should change your intent initialization with apply to this:

val intent = Intent().apply {
    action = Intent.ACTION_SEND
    type = "text/plain"
    putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Text to share")
}

When you modify the intent variable inside the apply you are modifying the activity intent not the brand new intent.

copy this code and you will see what i'm talking about:

val intent_1 = Intent().apply {
    intent.action = Intent.ACTION_SEND
    intent.type = "text/plain"
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Text to share")
}

Upvotes: 2

Maihan Nijat
Maihan Nijat

Reputation: 9334

The following code works instead of above posted in the question.

val i = Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND)
i.type = "text/plain"
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Content to share")
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "Sharing"))

I am not sure why the code in the question does not work but my guess is that intent is related to the activity's intent and it works when I instantiated another object from Intent class.

Upvotes: 0

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