Sharing image thumbnail and text in title like Instagram Shares to WhatsApp Android

Question

I need to share the content to whatsapp as Instagram does in picture attached.

The title section has an thumbnail of the image and title text and link. Then Message section has a link.

The Message section is straight forward. Any help on implementing the title section will be helpful.

Intent sendIntent = new Intent();   
sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);   
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TITLE, "title text");   
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "message section");   
sendIntent.setType("text/plain"); 
startActivity(sendIntent);

I have gone through whatsapp faq but they haven't mentioned list of the labels processed from the intent.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/android/28000012

@Nilesh Rathod Thanks for Ur reply. I don't want to create a view like above picture. What I need is to know how the intent should be structured such that WhatsApp creates a message like tat. — Sowmia Sundararajan, Sep 03 '19 at 07:04
Have you check this: https://stackoverflow.com/q/21935149/7666442 — AskNilesh, Sep 03 '19 at 07:05
It seems whatsapp takes the header information from the link being shared from other application and displays it. — Sowmia Sundararajan, Sep 04 '19 at 01:43
Check this https://stackoverflow.com/a/15439110/7666442 && https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19778620/provide-an-image-for-whatsapp-link-sharing && https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25100917/showing-thumbnail-for-link-in-whatsapp-ogimage-meta-tag-doesnt-work — AskNilesh, Sep 04 '19 at 04:43
@Nilesh Rathod. above mentioned stackoverflow links gives complete answer. thanks. couldn't upvote as i have un voted accidently. — Sowmia Sundararajan, Sep 04 '19 at 05:38

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 03 '19 at 06:09

Try below code

Uri imgUri = Uri.parse(pictureFile.getAbsolutePath());
    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    intent.setType("text/plain");
    intent.setPackage("com.whatsapp");
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "The text you wanted to share");
    intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, imgUri);
    intent.setType("image/jpeg");
    intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION);

    try {
        activity.startActivity(intent);
    } catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException ex) {
        Toast.MakeText(this,"Whatsapp not found",Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }

Sharing image thumbnail and text in title like Instagram Shares to WhatsApp Android

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