Share photo to facebook via intent in android

Question

I want to Share photo to facebook via intent from specific url.

http://tineye.com/images/widgets/mona.jpg

Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
Uri screenshotUri = Uri.parse("http://tineye.com/images/widgets/mona.jpg");
sharingIntent.setType("image/png");
sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, screenshotUri);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share image using"));

From galllery its working fine.

But when I pass above url to intent photo not share on facebook.

Help me for this......

What exactly is the problem? Do you get the select intent dialog? What happens when you select Facebook? Do you have the FB app installed? — Nikolay Elenkov, Dec 17 '12 at 07:26
can u give example of this for share photo via intent from specific url. — Arvind Kanjariya, Dec 17 '12 at 07:30
Are you sure they support sharing from a remote URL? Consult documentation, etc. for FB SDK, etc. — Nikolay Elenkov, Dec 17 '12 at 07:31
that i don't know can u tell it's possible or not? If u tried ever... — Arvind Kanjariya, Dec 17 '12 at 07:32
It looks like the MIME type ("image/png") does not match the type of your URL (JPEG)... have you tried with the correct MIME type? — Michael Aaron Safyan, Dec 17 '12 at 07:35
@ArvindKanjariya have you solved the problem, can you post solution? Thanks — Malwinder Singh, Jun 07 '15 at 12:29

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

for posting image from web url you will do following steps :

STEP 1: get bitmap from URL :

see this post

How to load an ImageView by URL in Android?

for getting image bitmap from URL

STEP 2 :

Store Bitmap in Images.Media temporarily and after send it you can delete it

String path = Images.Media.insertImage(getContentResolver(), 
                            bitmapiamge, "title", null);
Uri screenshotUri = Uri.parse(path);

Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
emailIntent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, screenshotUri);
emailIntent.setType("image/png");

startActivity(Intent.createChooser(emailIntent, "Send email using"));

and for sending bitmap to facebook wall see this post :

Android: Intent.ACTION_SEND with EXTRA_STREAM doesn't attach any image when choosing Gmail app on htc Hero

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 03 '13 at 06:59

Code to set the background image to the relative layout from one activity to another

in the first activity see the code shown below

protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) 
 {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    if(requestCode == 1011)
    {
        if(resultCode == RESULT_OK)
        {
            image.setImageURI(data.getData());
            imageUri = data.getData();

            String filePath[] = {MediaStore.Images.Media.DATA}; //A column name which to be return
            Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(imageUri, filePath, null, null, null);
            c.moveToFirst();
            int index = c.getColumnIndex(filePath[0]);
            String path = c.getString(index);//actual path of file in sa card
            c.close();

            if(path!=null)
            {
                //Bitmap bmp =BitmapFactory.decodeFile(path);
                SharedPreferences.Editor editor = pref.edit();              
                editor.putString("image",path);//set the path of file into the SharedResources
                editor.commit();
            }
        }

    }   
}

code to set background image

 void setLayoutBackground()
{
    SharedPreferences pref = getSharedPreferences("style_pref", 0);
    String path = pref.getString("image",null);
    Bitmap myBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(path);
        BitmapDrawable d = new BitmapDrawable(getResources(),myBitmap);
        layout.setBackgroundDrawable(d);
}

I fail to see the relevance to the question – njzk2 Feb 20 '14 at 21:41 — njzk2, Feb 20 '14 at 21:41

Share photo to facebook via intent in android

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