Using string inside ShareActionProvider share intent

Question

I'm trying to get ShareActionProvider to work and I've run into the following problem:

This code works:

      Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
    shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Text I want to share");

    MenuItem shareItem = menu.findItem(R.id.share);
    mShareActionProvider = (ShareActionProvider) shareItem.getActionProvider();
    mShareActionProvider.setShareIntent(shareIntent);

But this doesn't:

      Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
    shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, webView.getUrl());

    MenuItem shareItem = menu.findItem(R.id.share);
    mShareActionProvider = (ShareActionProvider) shareItem.getActionProvider();
    mShareActionProvider.setShareIntent(shareIntent);

Why is that?

Answer 1

I'm not sure, but try

shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, webView.getUrl().toString());

instead of

shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, webView.getUrl());