Share intent for instagram in Android

Question

Actually I want to share image in Instagram through intent.

I found this solution for images saved on SD card but I want to do same for image on site (link).

I tried with

Intent shareIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    shareIntent.setType("image/*");
    shareIntent
            .putExtra(
                    Intent.EXTRA_STREAM,
                    Uri.parse("http://www.alliswell.biz/images/products/art/alliswell_signs/yellowB.jpg"));
    shareIntent.setPackage("com.instagram.android");
    startActivity(shareIntent);

But it's not working.

Edit

When I start above intent it opens my installed Instagram application and it immediately finish Instagram and toast message comes "unable to download file"

Actually it does not parse link and image respectively. What should be issue?

Answer 1

You should use local path to file

For example: "file:///path/to/file/image.png".

Note, that it is very important to include "file" in the path, without this part it also can show the same toast.