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Mansour Alnasser
Mansour Alnasser

Reputation: 5040

ionic capacitor share plugin not sharing image with whatsapp

I have created this function that shares image very well on many applications, but when it comes to WhatsApp or Instagram it not sharing the image.

I'm using Ionic v5 with capacitor v3


  async shareImage() {
    let receiptName = 'Receipt N:123.png';
    const div = this.screenshotElement.nativeElement;
    const divHeight = div.clientHeight;
    const divWidth = div.clientWidth;
    const options = { background: '#ffffff', width: divWidth, height: divHeight };

    await Filesystem.requestPermissions();

    let base64Data = await domtoimage.toPng(div, options);

    // device shareing
    await Filesystem.writeFile({
      path: receiptName,
      data: base64Data,
      directory: Directory.Cache
    });


    let fileResult = await Filesystem.getUri({
      directory: Directory.Cache,
      path: receiptName
    });

    let imageLink = Capacitor.convertFileSrc(fileResult.uri);

    Share.share({
      title: receiptName,
      text: receiptName,
      url: fileResult.uri,
    })
      .then(() => console.log('Successful share'))
      .catch((error) => console.log('Error sharing ::: ', error));

  }

import

import domtoimage from 'dom-to-image';
import { Share } from '@capacitor/share';
import { Filesystem, Directory, Encoding } from '@capacitor/filesystem';
import { Capacitor } from '@capacitor/core';
import { Camera, CameraResultType } from '@capacitor/camera';

package

 "@capacitor/android": "^3.1.1",
        "@capacitor/app": "^1.0.2",
        "@capacitor/camera": "^1.0.3",
        "@capacitor/cli": "^3.1.1",
        "@capacitor/core": "^3.1.1",
        "@capacitor/filesystem": "^1.0.2",
        "@capacitor/haptics": "^1.0.2",
        "@capacitor/ios": "^3.1.1",
        "@capacitor/keyboard": "^1.0.2",
        "@capacitor/push-notifications": "^1.0.3",
        "@capacitor/share": "^1.0.3",
        "@capacitor/status-bar": "^1.0.2",

Upvotes: 7

Views: 5533

Answers (2)

augustino
augustino

Reputation: 559

could also use Capacitor Filesharer saved me alot of stress!

Upvotes: 1

Mansour Alnasser
Mansour Alnasser

Reputation: 5040

I found that @capacitor/share has this known issue.

see: https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor-plugins/issues/196

I solved it by using

npm install cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing
npm install @ionic-native/social-sharing
ionic cap sync

see: https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/social-sharing

Upvotes: 2

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