Sharing to Google+ from Android

Question

Does Google+ support sharing from an Android app yet? I wanted to know because I have implemented this for twitter and facebook on my app and would like to do the same for Google+. I did read that they have an API now but it's only for development and testing and apps cannot be published. Is this correct?

Answer 1

• The Google+ Android API can be found here: https://developers.google.com/+/mobile/android/

• The code snippet for sharing on Google+ is a little ways down that page https://developers.google.com/+/mobile/android/#share_on_google :

For example, in your XML:

<Button
  android:id="@+id/share_button"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:text="Share on Google+" />

In your Activity:

Button shareButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.share_button);
shareButton.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
      // Launch the Google+ share dialog with attribution to your app.
      Intent shareIntent = ShareCompat.IntentBuilder.from(ExampleActivity.this)
          .setType("text/plain")
          .setText("Welcome to the Google+ platform. https://developers.google.com/+")
          .getIntent()
          .setPackage("com.google.android.apps.plus");

      startActivity(shareIntent);
    }
});

Answer 2

Take a peek at this post from Julia Ferraiol i on the Google Plus developer blog :

Sharing Rich Content From Your Android Apps, to Google+ and Beyond