Successful share intent for android

Question

How can i tell if a user successfully completed a share intent? For instance if a user wanted to share an app via Facebook or Twitter.

Edit:

I am not looking at how to create an Intent for sharing. I want to know if the user actually shared anything. Or did the user hit the cancel button.

I was looking to thank the user for sharing my app. But I don't want to thank them if they didn't share. — Steve D, Jan 10 '12 at 02:19
@adamp this information might be important for statistical reasons. it's nice to know where your content is shared most to optimize for that target. — dy_, Nov 18 '15 at 20:50

HRJ · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-17T05:11:29.983

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I don't think there is an assured way to do it.

You could initiate the send using startActivityForResult() and hope that the activity which handles the Intent replies with a RESULT_OK. But you can't rely on it to work always.

edited Jan 17 '12 at 05:11

answered Jan 09 '12 at 19:37

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I guess i could just log.v the reply for each app that might be used and use a switch("reply for each app") from there. – Steve D Jan 13 '12 at 20:57
hi, i have the same issue. can you please share your result if you succeed please. Thanks :) – yakusha Jul 20 '13 at 03:47
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I find that most sharing services respond with 0, which is no different than if the share is cancelled (also 0). Twitter returns -1 but that is it. Looks like we can't track shares :( – Kevin_TA May 01 '14 at 20:08
I tested WhatsApp, Signal, Twitter and Gmail and only WhatsApp returned RESULT_OK. All others returned RESULT_CANCELED. – G00fY Feb 04 '21 at 14:17

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 01 '14 at 15:43

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For twitter - the "data" object in OnActivityResult is null when the user cancels the share.

answered Jun 01 '14 at 15:43

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For me, Twitter always return data null, even when the message sent – David Papirov Sep 17 '17 at 12:27

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 19 '20 at 12:48

Found the option, suitable for Android >= 22. Maybe it can help somebody.

Starting with Android 22 there's an option to send IntentSender object in createChooser method. You can create a pending intent for a broadcast receiver in which you can get the package name of the app on which a user clicked.

Receiver:

public class MyReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {

@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    super.onReceive(context, intent);
    // do something here
}
}

Manifest:

<receiver android:name="MyReceiver" android:exported="false"/>

Creating pending intent:

PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getBroadcast(context, 0, receiver, PendingIntent.FLAG_UPDATE_CURRENT);

And then using it in the chooser intent:

startActivity(Intent.createChooser(share
                            , "some_title"
                            , pendingIntent.getIntentSender()));

Then in onReceiver you can get the package name of the app:

String selectedAppPackage = String.valueOf(intent.getExtras().get(EXTRA_CHOSEN_COMPONENT))

Source: medium blogpost

But then again, this only tells what was the chosen app, not if the share was successful. — Votagus, Nov 26 '20 at 22:12

score -10 · Answer 4 · edited Mar 22 '12 at 05:00

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You have use the Intent.ACTION_SEND, and the system will display a list of applications (on the device) where you can share. This website explains how:

http://sudarmuthu.com/blog/sharing-content-in-android-using-action_send-intent

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answered Jan 09 '12 at 19:26

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I am not looking at how to create an intent for sharing. I want to know if the user actually shared anything. Or did the user hit the cancel button. – Steve D Jan 09 '12 at 19:33

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