Comments on: A Call To Action…ACTION_SEND, That Is

By: Error 454

Error 454 — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:05:00 +0000

Missing some getString()'s in here, should be:
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, getString(R.string.share_subject));
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, ...);

startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, getString(R.string.share_title)));

By: Usama

Usama — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:15:05 +0000

Go through this link.

http://www.mail-archive.com/android-developers@googlegroups.com/msg124392.html

It should solve the problem

Cheers,

By: Usama

Usama — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:13:29 +0000

Go through the link below. It should solve your problem

http://www.mail-archive.com/android-developers@googlegroups.com/msg124392.html

Cheers,

By: Janusz

Janusz — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:26:46 +0000

Great article as always but what happened to the code formatting?

By: Haya

Haya — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:07:20 +0000

what if I want to specify What the user sees in the pop-up dialog where they can choose how to send the message.

for example I dont want peep(twitter) to apear ?

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:13:24 +0000

This has been a major letdown for me. I know this is a facebook issue, they really need to respond to text better. Anyone know how to get around this? How does one actually send a link and text to facebook?!? I love ACTION_SEND and use it in my apps, but if they chose Facebook it takes them to an ugly facebook page telling them it doesn't work.

By: droidin

droidin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:25:02 +0000

Oh, man! This is beyond timely!

By: DroidDev

DroidDev — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:46:49 +0000

It seems that the official facebook app only supports sending it a link, and not an arbitrary text to post as status message. Somebody know a workaround for that?

By: commonsguy

commonsguy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:56:46 +0000

D'oh! Sorry about that. I have fixed the post. Thanks for pointing it out!

By: jsdf

jsdf — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:56:28 +0000

Mark,
After much searching, I think you have a typo in your code.
The MIME type listed in line 3 should be "text/plain", not "plain/text". With "plain/text", all I get is GMail. With "text/plain", I get a chooser of many options (e.g. Facebook, Twidroid, Messaging, etc.).
Thanks,
jsdf

By: commonsguy

commonsguy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:44:34 +0000

ACTION_SEND is not designed for your scenario. In your case, you are trying to specify who is the recipient (BCC, CC, TO). ACTION_SEND is designed for the case where the user is asking to send something, and you know what the "something" is, but are letting the user choose the communications app and recipients.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:24:21 +0000

Fin, this modification will show email apps only, using it in "Here I Am" app:

i.setType("text/xml");

By: Fin

Fin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:11:45 +0000

ACTION SEND is a bit of a pain really if you want to do anything more than send links. I am trying to do something fairly basic (sending an email with subject, body, bcc, cc, to, small image attachment) I have tried for a literal age to get ACTION SEND to create a chooser which can provide for the full suite. No point in offering up MMS or a facebook app when it is going to discard half the things requested.

The best thing they could do is implement a chooser which supports filtering based on attributes you want supported. Then force the consumer apps to do something consistant and sensible with the things passed to it. Something like the way you can gracefully select the most efficient location provider based on setting granularity and other requirements.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:59:09 +0000

Incredible timing Mark! I was about to start looking into how to do this!
Thanks again for your clear explanations.
jsdf