How to force Share Intent to open a specific app?

NullPointerException picture NullPointerException · Nov 29, 2011 · Viewed 30.5k times · Source

I like share intent, it is perfect to open sharing apps with image and text parameters.

But now i'm researching the way to force share intent to open a specific app from the list, with the paramters given to the share intent.

This is my actual code, it shows the list of sharing apps installed on the phone. Please, can somedone tell me what i should add to the code to force for example official twitter app? and official faccebok app?

Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
Uri screenshotUri = Uri.parse("file:///sdcard/test.jpg");  
sharingIntent.setType("image/*");
sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "body text");
sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, screenshotUri);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share image using"));

Thanks

Answer

Xorsat picture Xorsat · Nov 29, 2011

For Facebook

public void shareFacebook() {
        String fullUrl = "https://m.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=..";
        try {
            Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
            sharingIntent.setClassName("com.facebook.katana",
                    "com.facebook.katana.ShareLinkActivity");
            sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "your title text");
            startActivity(sharingIntent);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
            i.setData(Uri.parse(fullUrl));
            startActivity(i);

        }
    }

For Twitter.

public void shareTwitter() {
        String message = "Your message to post";
        try {
            Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
            sharingIntent.setClassName("com.twitter.android","com.twitter.android.PostActivity");
            sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, message);
            startActivity(sharingIntent);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.e("In Exception", "Comes here");
            Intent i = new Intent();
            i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, message);
            i.setAction(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
            i.setData(Uri.parse("https://mobile.twitter.com/compose/tweet"));
            startActivity(i);
        }
    }