Question

I want to implement a share function like the camera app is using.

final Intent sendIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);    
sendIntent.setType("image/jpeg"); 
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sendIntent , "Send .."));

works perfectly fine I get all the same apps as in the camera app, like facebook and peep. Now I don’t want to share an image but only some text, so I change to

sendIntent.setType("plain/text"); 

All I can share to now is GMail. So facebook and peep are not registered to plain/text, of course that could be, but makes no sense at all. I rather assume that I have to set some other option.

Anyone an idea?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You need to set the type to “text/plain” :

shareIntent.setType("text/plain");