How to create a share button for whatsapp, facebook or others app installed in my phone

Question

I am developing an app, where I want to share the TEXT and IMAGE to other apps installed on my phone. But when I click the share button Neither it shares TEXT nor IMAGE just empty it directs me to another app I chose for sharing. below postDescription and postImage are my methods of model class, and I checked that am I getting values are not in a toast it gives there values properly.

Below is the code:

    Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
                shareIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_WHEN_TASK_RESET);
                shareIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION);
                shareIntent.setType("image/*");
                shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, postDescription);

                Uri uri = Uri.parse(postImage);
                shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
                context.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share With"));

So the above bunch of code was not working, then I found code through which I can share my post TEXT and IMAGE to WhatsApp only, I tried that but it shows file formate not supported inside WhatsApp.

below is the code for sharing to WhatsApp only:

  Uri imgUri = Uri.parse(postImage);
            Intent whatsappIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
            whatsappIntent.setType("text/plain");
            whatsappIntent.setPackage("com.whatsapp");
            whatsappIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, postDescription );
            whatsappIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, imgUri);
            whatsappIntent.setType("image/jpeg");
            whatsappIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION);

            try {
                context.startActivity(whatsappIntent);
            } catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException ex) {

                Toast.makeText(context, "Whatsapp have not been installed.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }

I want to know how to create a share button that works fine for WhatsApp and everything or only WhatsApp will do the work for me.

Answer 1

By removing the package from the intent, Android should display the list of apps that can handle the type of intent.

Uri imgUri = Uri.parse(postImage); //Provide the URI to the downloaded image, not an external URL
Intent whatsappIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
whatsappIntent.setType("*/*");
whatsappIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, postDescription );
whatsappIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, imgUri);
if (whatsappIntent.resolveActivity(packageManager) != null) {
    startActivity(whatsappIntent)
}