Question

I have a application that has a text field, something like a sample notepad application. I want to have send option where I need to create intent to send the text to all possible applications like gmail, sms, facebook, twitter, etc… and i also want the other way also. I mean when the user clicks on send from other application they need to see my application as a option to receive text .

And In this operation if the application is a mail application for sending text to, example the gmail application, I want to have few files from my sd card attached to the mail.

Please let me how to do this in my application. Thank you for your help and time.

Answer 1

For registering your app as a receiver you have to use an intent as this:

<intent-filter>
   <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
   <data android:mimeType="text/plain" />
</intent-filter>

About sharing look at the documentation:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html

You should wrap it in a chooser (createChooser(Intent, CharSequence))

example:

Intent i=new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
i.setType("text/plain");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "hi");
i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "your data");
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "example"));