ShareActionProvider provides share for every compatible app on the device. I would like to specify which apps I want to allow sharing, like only twitter and gmail for example.
How would I do this?
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Google don't recommend that you share to specific apps as there are various different Twitter clients - it's better to just let people chose where they want to share it.
However, the following code will send the message "hello twitter" to twitter on a button press.
String message = "hello Twitter";
try {
//try to open the official twitter app
Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sharingIntent.setType("text/plain");
sharingIntent.putExtra(
android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject");
sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, message);
sharingIntent.setPackage("com.twitter.android");
startActivity(sharingIntent);
} catch (Exception e) {
//fallback on opening an internet browser
Log.e("Danielle", "exception=" + e.toString());
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);
}
Hope that helps.
Danielle
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This works. But I want to have multiples items in the shareactionprovider. I've tried to add multiple sharing intents but it doesn't work. Is it possible? – TrtG Jan 23 '14 at 18:13
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oh, so you'd want the popup to contain several items such as just facebook and twitter? I'm not sure if that's possible without making your own popup, with a button for each of the apps you want to share to - you'd also need to know the package names for each apps you want to share to. If that makes sense? – Danielle Jan 23 '14 at 18:43
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If you are ok with just using a popup, the answer by dacoinminster in this question How to filter specific apps for ACTION_SEND intent (and set a different text for each app) will do it.
But if you specifically want it to be an actionprovider dropdown, I have not find this solution either.
