Intent sendIntent = new Intent("android.intent.action.MAIN");
sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.setType("text/plain");
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, videoLink);
sendIntent.setPackage("com.whatsapp");
startActivity(sendIntent);
I can send the link containing the video to someone on WhatsApp, however, I want to show the image of the video to the user on WhatsApp.
Is there a way to do this in java or kotlin
as in the picture
I am not sure what you're trying to do exactly but there are two options I can think of.
Firstly, if you're looking for something like what you have in the screenshot then no coding is required.
This is usually handled by Facebook when their bot scrapes the meta tags from the page that is shared.
If you wanted to accelerate this process you can manually put the link that you want to share in Facebook's Sharing Debugger and scrape it manually so that Facebook takes note of it.
Once that is done you can share the link and it should display video information including the image, title & description.
However, if you want to share only the video image/thumbnail you can do that as follows:
grab the video ID from the URL using REGEX or by taking a substring of the URL that holds the ID.
Plug that ID in one of the following URLs to get a link to an image that you can share instead of the video.
https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/default.jpg
https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/mqdefault.jpg
https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/sddefault.jpg
https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/hqdefault.jpg
https://i3.ytimg.com/vi/<insert-youtube-video-id-here>/maxresdefault.jpg
Thanks to #asaph for his details answer on getting Youtube thumbnail here
I'm trying to send and intent which contains a String. I want to share this intent implicitly, so I don't want to specify the app who will receive this Intent.
Let me explain, the string I want to send will be send thank's to the Intent, and in the same app put in the clipboard, and then I paste the clipboard thank's to AccessibilityService in another app.
The intent will serve to be catches first by the clipboard, and then by another app (with a script code to this intent, because the app is too already created but can't be edited.
So I started to do this :
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "This is my text to send.");
intent.setType("text/plain");
intent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startActivity(intent);
from the developer.android site, but it open a menu in which I must chose an app to share the intent, that's what I won't.
Could you help be?
NOTE: I'm French, sorry for my poor English
when creating a firebase dynamic link manually i want the link to contain a variable as a parameter to deal with it when the link is clicked, i tried to do this:
StringBuilder link= new StringBuilder("https://qn937.app.goo.gl/?link=https://www.teblya.com/&apn=com.example.abdo.foodproject");
link.append("/?token="+itemŮ.getId()+"/");
Intent shareIntent = new Intent();
shareIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, link.toString());
shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, getResources().getText(R.string.app_name)));
but the problem is that it opens the deep link in the browser instead of my app.
does anyone know any approach i can sent this item.getId() parameter with the link? thanks in advance.
I should be able to press a button that takes a screenshot of the current activity (without showing the Toast message on the display) and then opens the dialog to share it on social networks or various apps. I hope you got what I need to do and you can help me.
How to take a screenshot programatically
After that, you can send a share intent with the screen shot image uri attached.
Like so:
Intent shareIntent = new Intent();
shareIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uriToImage);
shareIntent.setType("image/jpeg");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, getResources().getText(R.string.send_to)));
I asked a question previously about what shows up in the IntentChooser when I send an Intent with ACTION_SEND and MIME type "image/png". The problem is that some phones come with a default messaging app that is not showing up in the list, mine included (myTouch 4G) as well as a user that I speak with over email (using an HTC EVO). If I choose a Send or Share option from the built in gallery app or another application on the same image I'm saving and attempting to send directly from my app, Messages shows up in the list. From my app it does not. Other phones don't have this problem, so it's clearly a platform specific thing. But that doesn't mean I should just ignore the problem.
So, I go to troubleshooting the issue. I register one of the activities in my app to receive the the same type of intent, and then hit a breakpoint to analyze the Intent object being sent from the two different ways of sending it.
The problem is, the intent I'm sending and the intent being sent from Gallery or AndroZip (where Messages does show up in the chooser) seem to be the same. They both have the same action, same categories, same flags, same mime type. What else can I inspect on the Intent from Gallery or AndroZip to tell if there's some more information I can add to my Intent to get the default messaging app to show up in the chooser in cases where it is not?
The problem is specific to HTC Sense phones, and it arises because their Gallery and Messaging apps are different to the stock ones.
Specifically the Intent sent from Gallery to Messaging has the action android.intent.action.SEND_MSG which is different to android.intent.action.SEND. The Sense messaging app doesn't handle SEND, unlike the stock messaging app.
So the question becomes, how is the Sense Gallery app creating an activity chooser dialog which combines both SEND and SEND_MSG ?
I've done some research and got mostway there... the code below works, but the "Messages" entry in the dialog appears at the top rather than in alphabetical order as per Gallery. Doubtless some more research into intents would correct that, but at least this works:
// Create a chooser for things that can ACTION_SEND images
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
Uri data = Uri.parse("content://media/external/images/media/98");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, data);
intent.setType("image/jpeg");
Intent chooser = Intent.createChooser(intent, "Blah");
// Add the stupid HTC-Sense-specific secondary intent
Intent htcIntent = new Intent("android.intent.action.SEND_MSG");
htcIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, data);
htcIntent.setType("image/jpeg");
chooser.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, new Intent[] { htcIntent });
// Show the chooser
startActivity(chooser);
First of all, +1 to Reuben, he is the genius, not me. But I had to modify his code a bit to get it to work. Basically I had to putExtra() on the htcIntent or the image never got stuck to the Intent.
Tested and validated on a Droid X and HTC Incredible (which had the same problem until now thanks to Reuben).
Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(new File(mFile));
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
intent.setType("image/png");
Intent htcIntent = new Intent("android.intent.action.SEND_MSG");
htcIntent.setType("image/png");
htcIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
Intent chooser = Intent.createChooser(intent, "Send Method");
chooser.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, new Intent[] { htcIntent });
startActivity(chooser);
Edit: I realize I'm putting the image on two Intents now, but I couldn't get it to work any other way.
Instead of debugging the intents, why not try to compare how your starting the chooser with how the gallery is doing it. It is open source after all, so instead of trying to guess at the issue with the result, you can debug from the cause.
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Gallery3D