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?
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:
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