Question

I am trying to create a application for android in which I want to allow user to share text using my application.

The code that I have is as follow. Please help me find the error.

I don’t have logcat message because whenever I ran the sharer application in emulator and clicked on share button it directly opened the stock message application, despite my other application being installed in the emulator, so I had to test the application on my phone.

CODE OF APPLICATION I CREATED FOR SHARING

Intent sendIntent = new Intent();
sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "This is my text to send.");
sendIntent.setType("text/plain");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sendIntent, getResources().getText(R.string.send_to)));

MAIN APPLICATION

MANIFEST DECLARATION

<activity
        android:name="com.example.app.MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/title_activity_main"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />

            <data android:mimeType="text/plain" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

CODE FROM MAINACTIVITY.JAVA

Intent myintent = getIntent();
String action = myintent.getAction();
String type = myintent.getType();

if(Intent.ACTION_SEND.equals(action) && type !=null) {
    if("text/plain".equals(type)) {
        handleSendText(myintent);
  }
}

void handleSendText(Intent intent) {
    String sharedText = intent.getStringExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT);
    if (sharedText != null) {
        editText.setText(sharedText);
    }
}

Please help me find the error why there no Intent Chooser pop up with my application and the stock message application.

Answer 1

Try to run it in emulator and use debugger to find where your app is crashed then write it here try use catching exceptions