android youtube: share a youtube video TO my app?

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Carsten Drösser picture Carsten Drösser · Jun 24, 2012 · Viewed 11.4k times · Source

The built in YouTube App for tablets has a sharing-option. For example: I watch a video in the YouTube app and click the button to share. Bluetooth, Googlemail, and Dropbox appear for me. I wonder how i can list my app there? Which intent-filter has my app to have? How do i get the video url then? Any idea? Thanks.

Answer

Ditraoult Gilbert Olivier picture Ditraoult Gilbert Olivier · Jun 25, 2012

This worked for me. Add this intent filter to your manifest file to make your application appear in the share list of the youtube application.

<intent-filter>
   <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
   <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />              
   <data android:host="www.youtube.com" android:mimeType="text/*" />
</intent-filter>

Then to retrieve it in your activity, use this :

Bundle extras = getIntent().getExtras();
 String value1 = extras.getString(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT);

Here you are!

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