Question

I would like to create a pending intent for my app widget view that will launch a sharing intent. The problem is that there is no reference to any activity in the android.appwidget.AppWidgetProvider class. The code below does not work because I don’t have access to the MainMenuActivity class. Any ideas, is this even possible?

Intent shareIntent = ShareCompat.IntentBuilder.from(MainMenuActivity.this)
                   .setText("Some text")
                   .setType("text/plain")
                   .getIntent();

PendingIntent actionPendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context, 0, shareIntent, 0);
        views.setOnClickPendingIntent(R.id.widget_layout, actionPendingIntent);

Answer 1

Pass in the Context supplied as a parameter to your onUpdate() method to the from() method on ShareCompat.IntentBuilder.

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UPDATE

Sorry, it looks like ShareCompat.IntentBuilder will only work with Activity, not a generic Context like most other things in Android. Hence, you will not be able to use it from an app widget.