Share image and text through Whatsapp or Facebook

Question

I have in my app a share button and i want to share an image and a text at the same time. In GMail it works fine but in WhatsApp, only the image is sent and in Facebook the app crashes.

The code i use to share is this:

Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);   shareIntent.setType("image/*"); shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Message");           Uri uri = Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/drawable/ford_focus_2014");      try {         InputStream stream = getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri);     } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {         // TODO Auto-generated catch block         e.printStackTrace();     }  shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri); 

If I use "shareIntent.setType("*/ *")" Facebook and WhatsApp crashes.

Is there some way to do this? Maybe sent two messages by separate at the same time (WhatsApp).

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Currently Whatsapp supports Image and Text sharing at the same time. (Nov 2014).

Here is an example of how to do this:

    /**      * Show share dialog BOTH image and text      */     Uri imageUri = Uri.parse(pictureFile.getAbsolutePath());     Intent shareIntent = new Intent();     shareIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);     //Target whatsapp:     shareIntent.setPackage("com.whatsapp");     //Add text and then Image URI     shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, picture_text);     shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, imageUri);     shareIntent.setType("image/jpeg");     shareIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION);      try {         startActivity(shareIntent);     } catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException ex) {         ToastHelper.MakeShortText("Whatsapp have not been installed.");     }