Share Text on Facebook from Android App via ACTION SEND

Question

I have an Android app and it supports sending text via other apps  It therefore uses the ACTION SEND intent and the EXTRA TEXT field  The chooser presents me with all apps that can handle such an intent  Those are Twitter  Email      and Facebook  But when I select Facebook it opens the browser and goes to the following page   http   m facebook com sharer php u mytext  It shows my text and the submit button  But when I press the submit button nothing happens  The page just loads again  I think maybe it is only possible to send URLs via the Facebook App  Could that be   Did anyone manage to send text via ACTION SEND through the Facebook Android app

User · Answer

To make the Share work with the facebook app, you only need to have suply at least one link:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("text/plain");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Wonderful search engine http://www.google.fr/");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share with"));

This will show the correct sharing window but when you click on share, nothing happends (I also tried with the official Twitter App, it does not work).

The only way I found to make the Facebook app sharing work is to share only a link with no text:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("text/plain");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "http://www.google.fr/");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share with"));

It will show the following window and the Share button will work:

facebook share

Apparently it automatically takes an image and text from the link to populate the share.

If you want to share only text, you will have to use the facebook api: https://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk

User · Answer

EDITED  with the new release of the official Facebook app for Android  July 14 2011  IT WORKS     OLD  The examples above do not work if the user chooses the Facebook app for sharing  but they do work if the user chooses the Seesmic app to post to Facebook  I guess Seesmic have a better implementation of the Facebook API than Facebook

User · Answer

So I have a work around  but it assumes you have control over the page you re sharing     If you format your EXTRA TEXT like so     String myText    Hey  nThis is a neat pic    String extraText    http   www example com myPicPage html extraText  n n    myText        then on non-Facebook apps  your text should appear something like this      http   www example com myPicPage html extraText    Hey    This is a neat pic    Now if you update your website such that requests with the extraText query parameter return the contents of extraText in the page s meta data     lt  -- Make sure to sanitize your inputs  e g  http   xkcd com 327  -- gt   lt meta name  title  content  Hey  this is a neat pic   gt    Then when Facebook escapes that url to generate the dialog  it ll read the title meta data and embed it into your share dialog   I realize this is a pretty yuck solution  so take with a grain of salt

User · Answer

First you need query Intent to handler sharing option  Then use package name to filter Intent then we will have only one Intent that handler sharing option   Share via Facebook  Intent shareIntent   new Intent android content Intent ACTION SEND   shareIntent setType  text plain    shareIntent putExtra android content Intent EXTRA TEXT   Content to share    PackageManager pm   v getContext   getPackageManager    List lt ResolveInfo gt  activityList   pm queryIntentActivities shareIntent  0   for  final ResolveInfo app   activityList        if   app activityInfo name  contains  facebook              final ActivityInfo activity   app activityInfo          final ComponentName name   new ComponentName activity applicationInfo packageName  activity name           shareIntent addCategory Intent CATEGORY LAUNCHER           shareIntent setFlags Intent FLAG ACTIVITY NEW TASK               Intent FLAG ACTIVITY RESET TASK IF NEEDED           shareIntent setComponent name           v getContext   startActivity shareIntent           break           Bonus - Share via Twitter  Intent shareIntent   new Intent android content Intent ACTION SEND   shareIntent setType  text plain    shareIntent putExtra android content Intent EXTRA TEXT   Content to share    PackageManager pm   v getContext   getPackageManager    List lt ResolveInfo gt  activityList   pm queryIntentActivities shareIntent  0   for  final ResolveInfo app   activityList        if   com twitter android PostActivity  equals app activityInfo name             final ActivityInfo activity   app activityInfo          final ComponentName name   new ComponentName activity applicationInfo packageName  activity name           shareIntent addCategory Intent CATEGORY LAUNCHER           shareIntent setFlags Intent FLAG ACTIVITY NEW TASK               Intent FLAG ACTIVITY RESET TASK IF NEEDED           shareIntent setComponent name           v getContext   startActivity shareIntent           break           And if you want to find how to share via another sharing application  find it there T  p Blog - Advance share via Android

User · Answer

06 2013      This is a bug from Facebook  not your code Facebook will NOT fix this bug  they say it is  by design  that they broke the Android share system   https   developers facebook com bugs 332619626816423 use the SDK or share only URL  Tips  you could cheat a little using the web page title as text for the post

User · Answer

ShareDialog shareDialog   new ShareDialog this   if ShareDialog canShow ShareLinkContent class          ShareLinkContent linkContent   new ShareLinkContent Builder   setContentTitle strTitle  setContentDescription strDescription                               setContentUrl Uri parse strNewsHtmlUrl                                build        shareDialog show linkContent

User · Answer

if you want to show text put   at the begging of the message you want it will share it as Hashtag

User · Answer

It appears that it s a bug in the Facebook app that was reported in April 2011 and has still yet to be fixed by the Android Facebook developers   The only work around for the moment is to use their SDK

User · Answer

Check this out   By this we can check activity results also        Open all sharing option for user                     Intent sharingIntent   new Intent android content Intent ACTION SEND                        sharingIntent setType  text plain                                            sharingIntent putExtra android content Intent EXTRA SUBJECT  ShortDesc   from   BusinessName                       sharingIntent putExtra android content Intent EXTRA TEXT  ShortDesc     ShareURL                       sharingIntent putExtra Intent EXTRA TITLE  ShortDesc     ShareURL                       startActivityForResult Intent createChooser sharingIntent   Share via   1000              Get the result when we share any data to another activity                public void onActivityResult int requestCode  int resultCode  Intent data            super onActivityResult requestCode  resultCode  data            switch requestCode            case 1000              if resultCode    RESULT OK                  Toast makeText getApplicationContext     Activity 1 returned OK   Toast LENGTH LONG  show                else                 Toast makeText getApplicationContext     Activity 1 returned NOT OK   Toast LENGTH LONG  show                break          case 1002              if resultCode    RESULT OK                  Toast makeText getApplicationContext     Activity 2 returned OK   Toast LENGTH LONG  show                break              end switch            end onActivityResult

User · Answer

It appears that the Facebook app handles this intent incorrectly  The most reliable way seems to be to use the Facebook API for Android   The SDK is at this link  http   github com facebook facebook-android-sdk  Under  usage   there is this      Display a Facebook dialog       The SDK supports several WebView html   dialogs for user interactions  such as   creating a wall post  This is intended   to provided quick Facebook   functionality without having to   implement a native Android UI and pass   data to facebook directly though the   APIs    This seems like the best way to do it -- display a dialog that will post to the wall  The only issue is that they may have to log in first

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