[android] Android: Share plain text using intent (to all messaging apps)

I'm trying to share some text using an intent:

Intent i = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
i.setType("text/plain");  
i.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "TEXT");

and warping with chooser:

startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sms, getResources().getString(R.string.share_using)));

it works! but only for email app.
what I need is a general intent for all messaging app: emails, sms, IM (Whatsapp, Viber, Gmail, SMS...) tried using android.content.Intent.ACTION_VIEW and tried using i.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms"); nothing helped...

("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms" shared using sms only!)

This a great example about share with Intents in Android:

* Share with Intents in Android

//Share text:

Intent intent2 = new Intent(); intent2.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent2.setType("text/plain");
intent2.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Your text here" );  
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent2, "Share via"));

//via Email:

Intent intent2 = new Intent();
intent2.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent2.setType("message/rfc822");
intent2.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[]{EMAIL1, EMAIL2});
intent2.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Email Subject");
intent2.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Your text here" );  
startActivity(intent2);

//Share Files:

//Image:

boolean isPNG = (path.toLowerCase().endsWith(".png")) ? true : false;

Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
//Set type of file
if(isPNG)
{
    i.setType("image/png");//With png image file or set "image/*" type
}
else
{
    i.setType("image/jpeg");
}

Uri imgUri = Uri.fromFile(new File(path));//Absolute Path of image
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, imgUri);//Uri of image
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "Share via"));
break;

//APK:

File f = new File(path1);
if(f.exists())
{

   Intent intent2 = new Intent();
   intent2.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
   intent2.setType("application/vnd.android.package-archive");//APk file type  
   intent2.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.fromFile(f) );  
   startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent2, "Share via"));
}
break;

New way of doing this would be using ShareCompat.IntentBuilder like so:

// Create and fire off our Intent in one fell swoop
ShareCompat.IntentBuilder
        // getActivity() or activity field if within Fragment
        .from(this) 
        // The text that will be shared
        .setText(textToShare)
        // most general text sharing MIME type
        .setType("text/plain") 
        .setStream(uriToContentThatMatchesTheArgumentOfSetType)
        /*
         * [OPTIONAL] Designate a URI to share. Your type that 
         * is set above will have to match the type of data
         * that your designating with this URI. Not sure
         * exactly what happens if you don't do that, but 
         * let's not find out.
         * 
         * For example, to share an image, you'd do the following:
         *     File imageFile = ...;
         *     Uri uriToImage = ...; // Convert the File to URI
         *     Intent shareImage = ShareCompat.IntentBuilder.from(activity)
         *       .setType("image/png")
         *       .setStream(uriToImage)
         *       .getIntent();
         */
        .setEmailTo(arrayOfStringEmailAddresses)
        .setEmailTo(singleStringEmailAddress)
        /*
         * [OPTIONAL] Designate the email recipients as an array
         * of Strings or a single String
         */ 
        .setEmailTo(arrayOfStringEmailAddresses)
        .setEmailTo(singleStringEmailAddress)
        /*
         * [OPTIONAL] Designate the email addresses that will be 
         * BCC'd on an email as an array of Strings or a single String
         */ 
        .addEmailBcc(arrayOfStringEmailAddresses)
        .addEmailBcc(singleStringEmailAddress)
        /* 
         * The title of the chooser that the system will show
         * to allow the user to select an app
         */
        .setChooserTitle(yourChooserTitle)
        .startChooser();

If you have any more questions about using ShareCompat, I highly recommend this great article from Ian Lake, an Android Developer Advocate at Google, for a more complete breakdown of the API. As you'll notice, I borrowed some of this example from that article.

If that article doesn't answer all of your questions, there is always the Javadoc itself for ShareCompat.IntentBuilder on the Android Developers website. I added more to this example of the API's usage on the basis of clemantiano's comment.

Below is the code that works with both the email or messaging app. If you share through email then the subject and body both are added.

Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
                sharingIntent.setType("text/plain");

                String shareString = Html.fromHtml("Medicine Name:" + medicine_name +
                        "<p>Store Name:" + “store_name “+ "</p>" +
                        "<p>Store Address:" + “store_address” + "</p>")  .toString();
                                      sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Medicine Enquiry");
                sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, shareString);

                if (sharingIntent.resolveActivity(context.getPackageManager()) != null)
                    context.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share using"));
                else {
                    Toast.makeText(context, "No app found on your phone which can perform this action", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }

Use below method, just pass the subject and body as arguments of the method

public static void shareText(String subject,String body) {
    Intent txtIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    txtIntent .setType("text/plain");
    txtIntent .putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, subject);
    txtIntent .putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, body);
    startActivity(Intent.createChooser(txtIntent ,"Share"));
}

Images or binary data:

Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sharingIntent.setType("image/jpg");
Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(new File(getFilesDir(), "foo.jpg"));
sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri.toString());
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share image using"));

or HTML:

Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sharingIntent.setType("text/html");
sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, Html.fromHtml("<p>This is the text shared.</p>"));
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent,"Share using"));

This code is for sharing through sms

     String smsBody="Sms Body";
     Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
     sendIntent.putExtra("sms_body", smsBody);
     sendIntent.setType("vnd.android-dir/mms-sms");
     startActivity(sendIntent);

Intent sendIntent = new Intent();
sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "This is my text to send.");
sendIntent.setType("text/plain");

Intent shareIntent = Intent.createChooser(sendIntent, null);
startActivity(shareIntent);

100 % Working Code For Gmail Share

    Intent intent = new Intent (Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    intent.setType("message/rfc822");
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[]{"[email protected]"});
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Any subject if you want");
    intent.setPackage("com.google.android.gm");
    if (intent.resolveActivity(getPackageManager())!=null)
        startActivity(intent);
    else
        Toast.makeText(this,"Gmail App is not installed",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();