Android Share Image and Text

Android Share Text and Images Using Share Intent

Aug 20, 2015 By: Dr. Droid Android Image Picker, Intent Comments: 0

Android provide us an Intent by which we can use to share image, video, audio, text, etc. to other installed apps like WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, etc. We had seen many apps has functionality of sharing image and text to other app and also they have functionality to make other apps share their text and image to the app like WhatsApp from which we can share text and image and also we can share text and image to WhatsApp.

For more information about this Sharing Intent you can read over here.

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Today we are going to create an app that share text and image to other app and also the other app can share their image and text to this app.

Example

In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to share image and text to other apps and help other apps to share image and text to our app.

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1. Create a new project in Eclipse by navigating to File ⇒ New Android ⇒ Application Project and fill required details. By default my activity is ShareActivity.java.

2. Open res ⇒ values ⇒ strings.xml and add below string values. These are some strings that we are going to use in our project.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <string name="share_activity">Share Activity Demo</string>
    <string name="shared_activity">Shared Activity Demo</string>
    <string name="imageview">Share ImageView</string>
    <string name="share_image">Share Image</string>
    <string name="share_text">Share Text</string>
    <string name="select_image">Select Image</string>
    <string name="enter_text">Enter something to share</string>
    <string name="shared_text">Shared Text</string>
    <string name="shared_image">Shared Image</string>
</resources>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<string name="share_activity">Share Activity Demo</string>

<string name="shared_activity">Shared Activity Demo</string>

<string name="imageview">Share ImageView</string>

<string name="share_image">Share Image</string>

<string name="share_text">Share Text</string>

<string name="select_image">Select Image</string>

<string name="enter_text">Enter something to share</string>

<string name="shared_text">Shared Text</string>

<string name="shared_image">Shared Image</string>

</resources>

3. Now, create an xml layout naming share_activity.xml for ShareActivity.java. In this layout i had taken ImageView to display the selected image from gallery and share button for image and one edittext for user input to share the text.

<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:fillViewport="true" >

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:padding="5dp" >

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:padding="5dp"
            android:text="@string/share_image"
            android:textColor="#ff6600"
            android:textSize="25sp"
            android:textStyle="bold" />

        <ImageView
            android:id="@+id/share_imageview"
            android:layout_width="200dp"
            android:layout_height="200dp"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
            android:contentDescription="@string/imageview"
            android:padding="5dp"
            android:src="@drawable/logo" />

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            android:padding="5dp" >

            <Button
                android:id="@+id/select_image"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_margin="3dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:padding="5dp"
                android:text="@string/select_image" />

            <Button
                android:id="@+id/share_image"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_margin="3dp"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:padding="5dp"
                android:text="@string/share_image"
                android:visibility="gone" />
        </LinearLayout>

        <TextView
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:padding="5dp"
            android:text="@string/share_text"
            android:textColor="#ff6600"
            android:textSize="25sp"
            android:textStyle="bold" />

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/text_share"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
            android:hint="@string/enter_text"
            android:inputType="text"
            android:padding="10dp"
            android:textColor="#000000"
            android:textColorHint="#d3d3d3"
            android:textSize="15sp" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btnTextShare"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
            android:padding="5dp"
            android:text="@string/share_text" />
    </LinearLayout>

</ScrollView>

<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="fill_parent"

android:fillViewport="true" >

<LinearLayout

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:gravity="center"

android:orientation="vertical"

android:padding="5dp" >

<TextView

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:gravity="center"

android:padding="5dp"

android:text="@string/share_image"

android:textColor="#ff6600"

android:textSize="25sp"

android:textStyle="bold" />

<ImageView

android:id="@+id/share_imageview"

android:layout_width="200dp"

android:layout_height="200dp"

android:layout_gravity="center"

android:layout_marginTop="10dp"

android:contentDescription="@string/imageview"

android:padding="5dp"

android:src="@drawable/logo" />

<LinearLayout

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:orientation="horizontal"

android:padding="5dp" >

<Button

android:id="@+id/select_image"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_margin="3dp"

android:layout_weight="1"

android:padding="5dp"

android:text="@string/select_image" />

<Button

android:id="@+id/share_image"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_margin="3dp"

android:layout_weight="1"

android:padding="5dp"

android:text="@string/share_image"

android:visibility="gone" />

</LinearLayout>

<TextView

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_marginTop="5dp"

android:gravity="center"

android:padding="5dp"

android:text="@string/share_text"

android:textColor="#ff6600"

android:textSize="25sp"

android:textStyle="bold" />

<EditText

android:id="@+id/text_share"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_marginTop="10dp"

android:hint="@string/enter_text"

android:inputType="text"

android:padding="10dp"

android:textColor="#000000"

android:textColorHint="#d3d3d3"

android:textSize="15sp" />

<Button

android:id="@+id/btnTextShare"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_marginTop="5dp"

android:padding="5dp"

android:text="@string/share_text" />

</LinearLayout>

</ScrollView>

4. For sharing image we have to follow some steps :

ACTION_SEND – This intent will start the Send Activity.
setType(“image/*”) – We have to set type of send data i.e. for image it is” image/*”.
putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, imagePath) – Put extra will put the extra stream with the path name of image that we are sharing.
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, “Share Image Using”)) – Now start chooser activity with title name.

For sharing text also we have to follow some steps :

setType(“text/plain”) – We have to change the type of send because we are sending text.
putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, “Subject Here”) – We can add extra subject to our text.
putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, text) – Now put extra text that we want to share.
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, “Share Text Using”)) – Finally start chooser activity for text share.

5. Finally come to your ShareActivity.java and add the following code. In this code i had also implemented to choose an image from gallery for image sharing. If you don’t know how to pick an image from gallery you can read my earlier tutorial.

package com.imagetext_share_demo;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import com.imagetext_share_demo.R;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class ShareActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements OnClickListener {
	private static Button selectImage, shareImage, shareText;
	private static ImageView imageView;
	private static EditText textToShare;

	// Uri for image path
	private static Uri imageUri = null;

	private final int select_photo = 1; // request code fot gallery intent

	@Override
	protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		setContentView(R.layout.share_activity);

		init();
		setListeners();

	}

	// Initialize views
	private void init() {
		selectImage = (Button) findViewById(R.id.select_image);
		shareImage = (Button) findViewById(R.id.share_image);
		shareText = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnTextShare);

		imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.share_imageview);

		textToShare = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.text_share);
	}

	// Implement click listeners
	private void setListeners() {
		selectImage.setOnClickListener(this);
		shareImage.setOnClickListener(this);
		shareText.setOnClickListener(this);
	}

	@Override
	public void onClick(View view) {
		switch (view.getId()) {
		case R.id.select_image:
			// Intent to gallery
			Intent in = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK);
			in.setType("image/*");
			startActivityForResult(in, select_photo);// start
														// activity
														// for
														// result
			break;
		case R.id.share_image:

			// share image
			shareImage(imageUri);

			break;
		case R.id.btnTextShare:

			// Share text
			String getText = textToShare.getText().toString();
			if (!getText.equals("") && getText.length() != 0)
				shareText(getText);
			else
				Toast.makeText(ShareActivity.this,
						"Please enter something to share.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
						.show();

			break;

		}
	}

	protected void onActivityResult(int requestcode, int resultcode,
			Intent imagereturnintent) {
		super.onActivityResult(requestcode, resultcode, imagereturnintent);
		switch (requestcode) {
		case select_photo:
			if (resultcode == RESULT_OK) {
				try {

					imageUri = imagereturnintent.getData();// Get intent
															// data

					Bitmap bitmap = Utils.decodeUri(ShareActivity.this,
							imageUri, 200);// call
											// deocde
											// uri
											// method
					// Check if bitmap is not null then set image else show
					// toast
					if (bitmap != null) {
						imageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);// Set image over
															// bitmap
						shareImage.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);// Visible button
																// if bitmap is
																// not null
					} else {
						shareImage.setVisibility(View.GONE);
						Toast.makeText(ShareActivity.this,
								"Error while decoding image.",
								Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
					}
				} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

					e.printStackTrace();
					Toast.makeText(ShareActivity.this, "File not found.",
							Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
				}
			}
		}
	}

	// Share image
	private void shareImage(Uri imagePath) {
		Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
		sharingIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_WHEN_TASK_RESET);
		sharingIntent.setType("image/*");
		sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, imagePath);
		startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share Image Using"));
	}

	// Share text
	private void shareText(String text) {

		Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
		sharingIntent.setType("text/plain");// Plain format text

		// You can add subject also
		/*
		 * sharingIntent.putExtra( android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,
		 * "Subject Here");
		 */
		sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, text);
		startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share Text Using"));
	}
}

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package com.imagetext_share_demo;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import com.imagetext_share_demo.R;

import android.content.Intent;

import android.graphics.Bitmap;

import android.net.Uri;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.view.View;

import android.view.View.OnClickListener;

import android.widget.Button;

import android.widget.EditText;

import android.widget.ImageView;

import android.widget.Toast;

public class ShareActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements OnClickListener {

private static Button selectImage, shareImage, shareText;

private static ImageView imageView;

private static EditText textToShare;

// Uri for image path

private static Uri imageUri = null;

private final int select_photo = 1; // request code fot gallery intent

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.share_activity);

init();

setListeners();

}

// Initialize views

private void init() {

selectImage = (Button) findViewById(R.id.select_image);

shareImage = (Button) findViewById(R.id.share_image);

shareText = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnTextShare);

imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.share_imageview);

textToShare = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.text_share);

}

// Implement click listeners

private void setListeners() {

selectImage.setOnClickListener(this);

shareImage.setOnClickListener(this);

shareText.setOnClickListener(this);

}

@Override

public void onClick(View view) {

switch (view.getId()) {

case R.id.select_image:

// Intent to gallery

Intent in = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK);

in.setType("image/*");

startActivityForResult(in, select_photo);// start

// activity

// for

// result

break;

case R.id.share_image:

// share image

shareImage(imageUri);

break;

case R.id.btnTextShare:

// Share text

String getText = textToShare.getText().toString();

if (!getText.equals("") && getText.length() != 0)

shareText(getText);

else

Toast.makeText(ShareActivity.this,

"Please enter something to share.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)

.show();

break;

}

protected void onActivityResult(int requestcode, int resultcode,

Intent imagereturnintent) {

super.onActivityResult(requestcode, resultcode, imagereturnintent);

switch (requestcode) {

case select_photo:

if (resultcode == RESULT_OK) {

try {

imageUri = imagereturnintent.getData();// Get intent

// data

Bitmap bitmap = Utils.decodeUri(ShareActivity.this,

imageUri, 200);// call

// deocde

// uri

// method

// Check if bitmap is not null then set image else show

// toast

if (bitmap != null) {

imageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);// Set image over

// bitmap

shareImage.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);// Visible button

// if bitmap is

// not null

} else {

shareImage.setVisibility(View.GONE);

Toast.makeText(ShareActivity.this,

"Error while decoding image.",

Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

}

} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

Toast.makeText(ShareActivity.this, "File not found.",

Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

}

// Share image

private void shareImage(Uri imagePath) {

Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);

sharingIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_WHEN_TASK_RESET);

sharingIntent.setType("image/*");

sharingIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, imagePath);

startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share Image Using"));

}

// Share text

private void shareText(String text) {

Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);

sharingIntent.setType("text/plain");// Plain format text

// You can add subject also

* sharingIntent.putExtra( android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT,

* "Subject Here");

sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, text);

startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share Text Using"));

}

6. Create a new class naming Utils.java for decoding large image into smaller image while picking an image from gallery.

package com.imagetext_share_demo;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.net.Uri;

public class Utils {
	// Method that deocde uri into bitmap. This method is necessary to deocde
	// large size images to load over imageview
	public static Bitmap decodeUri(Context context, Uri uri,
			final int requiredSize) throws FileNotFoundException {
		BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options();
		o.inJustDecodeBounds = true;
		BitmapFactory.decodeStream(context.getContentResolver()
				.openInputStream(uri), null, o);

		int width_tmp = o.outWidth, height_tmp = o.outHeight;
		int scale = 1;

		while (true) {
			if (width_tmp / 2 < requiredSize || height_tmp / 2 < requiredSize)
				break;
			width_tmp /= 2;
			height_tmp /= 2;
			scale *= 2;
		}

		BitmapFactory.Options o2 = new BitmapFactory.Options();
		o2.inSampleSize = scale;
		return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(context.getContentResolver()
				.openInputStream(uri), null, o2);
	}

}

package com.imagetext_share_demo;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import android.content.Context;

import android.graphics.Bitmap;

import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;

import android.net.Uri;

public class Utils {

// Method that deocde uri into bitmap. This method is necessary to deocde

// large size images to load over imageview

public static Bitmap decodeUri(Context context, Uri uri,

final int requiredSize) throws FileNotFoundException {

BitmapFactory.Options o = new BitmapFactory.Options();

o.inJustDecodeBounds = true;

BitmapFactory.decodeStream(context.getContentResolver()

.openInputStream(uri), null, o);

int width_tmp = o.outWidth, height_tmp = o.outHeight;

int scale = 1;

while (true) {

if (width_tmp / 2 < requiredSize || height_tmp / 2 < requiredSize)

break;

width_tmp /= 2;

height_tmp /= 2;

scale *= 2;

}

BitmapFactory.Options o2 = new BitmapFactory.Options();

o2.inSampleSize = scale;

return BitmapFactory.decodeStream(context.getContentResolver()

.openInputStream(uri), null, o2);

}

Still we had learned how to share an image and text to other apps. Now we are going to learn how to make our app in such a way so that other apps can also share image and text.

7. For other apps to share image and text we have to create a layout to display image and text. I named this layout shared_activity.xml.

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:padding="5dp" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/shared_textview_title"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:padding="5dp"
        android:text="@string/shared_text"
        android:textColor="#ff6600"
        android:textSize="25sp"
        android:textStyle="bold"
        android:visibility="gone" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/shared_textview"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
        android:padding="5dp"
        android:textColor="#000000"
        android:textSize="15sp"
        android:visibility="gone" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/shared_imageview_title"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:padding="5dp"
        android:text="@string/shared_image"
        android:textColor="#ff6600"
        android:textSize="25sp"
        android:textStyle="bold"
        android:visibility="gone" />

    <ImageView
        android:id="@+id/shared_imageview"
        android:layout_width="200dp"
        android:layout_height="200dp"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
        android:contentDescription="@string/imageview"
        android:padding="5dp"
        android:src="@drawable/logo"
        android:visibility="gone" />

</LinearLayout>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="fill_parent"

android:gravity="center"

android:orientation="vertical"

android:padding="5dp" >

<TextView

android:id="@+id/shared_textview_title"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_marginTop="5dp"

android:gravity="center"

android:padding="5dp"

android:text="@string/shared_text"

android:textColor="#ff6600"

android:textSize="25sp"

android:textStyle="bold"

android:visibility="gone" />

<TextView

android:id="@+id/shared_textview"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_marginTop="10dp"

android:padding="5dp"

android:textColor="#000000"

android:textSize="15sp"

android:visibility="gone" />

<TextView

android:id="@+id/shared_imageview_title"

android:layout_width="fill_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_marginTop="10dp"

android:gravity="center"

android:padding="5dp"

android:text="@string/shared_image"

android:textColor="#ff6600"

android:textSize="25sp"

android:textStyle="bold"

android:visibility="gone" />

<ImageView

android:id="@+id/shared_imageview"

android:layout_width="200dp"

android:layout_height="200dp"

android:layout_gravity="center"

android:layout_marginTop="5dp"

android:contentDescription="@string/imageview"

android:padding="5dp"

android:src="@drawable/logo"

android:visibility="gone" />

</LinearLayout>

8. Now create a new class naming SharedActivity.java for sharing text and image to this activity. In this activity we get the intent action and action type and check the conditions according to text and image and display according to it.

package com.imagetext_share_demo;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import com.imagetext_share_demo.R;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class SharedActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
	private static ImageView sharedImageView;
	private static TextView sharedTextView, shared_textview_title,
			shared_imageview_title;

	@Override
	protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		setContentView(R.layout.shared_activity);
		sharedImageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.shared_imageview);
		sharedTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.shared_textview);
		shared_textview_title = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.shared_textview_title);
		shared_imageview_title = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.shared_imageview_title);

		// Call shared intent
		onSharedIntent();
	}

	// Shared intent method
	private void onSharedIntent() {
		Intent receiverdIntent = getIntent();// Receive intent
		String receivedAction = receiverdIntent.getAction();// Get Action from
															// receive intent
		String receivedType = receiverdIntent.getType();// Get type from receive
														// intent

		// If action is equal to action send
		if (receivedAction.equals(Intent.ACTION_SEND)) {

			// If nothing shared
			sharedTextView.setText("Nothing has shared");
			sharedTextView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
			shared_textview_title.setVisibility(View.GONE);
			sharedImageView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
			shared_imageview_title.setVisibility(View.GONE);

			// If mime type is equal to text then show text and hide imageview
			if (receivedType.startsWith("text/")) {
				sharedImageView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
				shared_imageview_title.setVisibility(View.GONE);
				String receivedText = receiverdIntent
						.getStringExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT);
				if (receivedText != null) {
					sharedTextView.setText(receivedText);
					sharedTextView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
					shared_textview_title.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
				}
			}
			// If mime type is equal to image then show image and hide textview
			else if (receivedType.startsWith("image/")) {
				sharedTextView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
				shared_textview_title.setVisibility(View.GONE);
				Uri receiveUri = (Uri) receiverdIntent
						.getParcelableExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM);

				if (receiveUri != null) {
					try {
						Bitmap bitmap = Utils.decodeUri(SharedActivity.this,
								receiveUri, 200);
						sharedImageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);
						sharedImageView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
						shared_imageview_title.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
					} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
						e.printStackTrace();
					}
				}
			}

		} else if (receivedAction.equals(Intent.ACTION_MAIN)) {
			sharedTextView.setText("Nothing has shared");
			sharedTextView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
			shared_textview_title.setVisibility(View.GONE);
			sharedImageView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
			shared_imageview_title.setVisibility(View.GONE);
		}
	}

}

package com.imagetext_share_demo;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

import com.imagetext_share_demo.R;

import android.content.Intent;

import android.graphics.Bitmap;

import android.net.Uri;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.view.View;

import android.widget.ImageView;

import android.widget.TextView;

public class SharedActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

private static ImageView sharedImageView;

private static TextView sharedTextView, shared_textview_title,

shared_imageview_title;

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.shared_activity);

sharedImageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.shared_imageview);

sharedTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.shared_textview);

shared_textview_title = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.shared_textview_title);

shared_imageview_title = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.shared_imageview_title);

// Call shared intent

onSharedIntent();

}

// Shared intent method

private void onSharedIntent() {

Intent receiverdIntent = getIntent();// Receive intent

String receivedAction = receiverdIntent.getAction();// Get Action from

// receive intent

String receivedType = receiverdIntent.getType();// Get type from receive

// intent

// If action is equal to action send

if (receivedAction.equals(Intent.ACTION_SEND)) {

// If nothing shared

sharedTextView.setText("Nothing has shared");

sharedTextView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

shared_textview_title.setVisibility(View.GONE);

sharedImageView.setVisibility(View.GONE);

shared_imageview_title.setVisibility(View.GONE);

// If mime type is equal to text then show text and hide imageview

if (receivedType.startsWith("text/")) {

sharedImageView.setVisibility(View.GONE);

shared_imageview_title.setVisibility(View.GONE);

String receivedText = receiverdIntent

.getStringExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT);

if (receivedText != null) {

sharedTextView.setText(receivedText);

sharedTextView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

shared_textview_title.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

}

// If mime type is equal to image then show image and hide textview

else if (receivedType.startsWith("image/")) {

sharedTextView.setVisibility(View.GONE);

shared_textview_title.setVisibility(View.GONE);

Uri receiveUri = (Uri) receiverdIntent

.getParcelableExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM);

if (receiveUri != null) {

try {

Bitmap bitmap = Utils.decodeUri(SharedActivity.this,

receiveUri, 200);

sharedImageView.setImageBitmap(bitmap);

sharedImageView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

shared_imageview_title.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

} else if (receivedAction.equals(Intent.ACTION_MAIN)) {

sharedTextView.setText("Nothing has shared");

sharedTextView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

shared_textview_title.setVisibility(View.GONE);

sharedImageView.setVisibility(View.GONE);

shared_imageview_title.setVisibility(View.GONE);

}

9. Finally the main thing is to add this SharedActivity.java to Manifest file so that your activity should list in Sharing listview. For this you have to add some intent filter and data type that activity gonna listen.

 <activity
            android:name="com.imagetext_share_demo.SharedActivity"
            android:icon="@drawable/share_this"
            android:label="@string/shared_activity" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" /> <!-- Send action required to display activity in share list -->

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" /> <!-- Make activity default to launch -->


                <!-- Mime type i.e. what can be shared with this activity only image and text -->
                <data android:mimeType="image/*" />
                <data android:mimeType="text/*" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

<activity

android:name="com.imagetext_share_demo.SharedActivity"

android:icon="@drawable/share_this"

android:label="@string/shared_activity" >

<intent-filter>

</intent-filter>

</activity>

Your Manifest will look like this :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.imagetext_share_demo"
    android:versionCode="1"
    android:versionName="1.0" >

    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="8"
        android:targetSdkVersion="22" />

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/share"
        android:label="@string/share_activity"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
        <activity
            android:name="com.imagetext_share_demo.ShareActivity"
            android:icon="@drawable/share"
            android:label="@string/share_activity" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

        <!-- Shared Activity -->
        <activity
            android:name="com.imagetext_share_demo.SharedActivity"
            android:icon="@drawable/share_this"
            android:label="@string/shared_activity" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" /> <!-- Send action required to display activity in share list -->

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" /> <!-- Make activity default to launch -->


                <!-- Mime type i.e. what can be shared with this activity only image and text -->
                <data android:mimeType="image/*" />
                <data android:mimeType="text/*" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>

</manifest>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

package="com.imagetext_share_demo"

android:versionCode="1"

android:versionName="1.0" >

<uses-sdk

android:minSdkVersion="8"

android:targetSdkVersion="22" />

<application

android:allowBackup="true"

android:icon="@drawable/share"

android:label="@string/share_activity"

android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >

<activity

android:name="com.imagetext_share_demo.ShareActivity"

android:icon="@drawable/share"

android:label="@string/share_activity" >

<intent-filter>

</intent-filter>

</activity>

<activity

android:name="com.imagetext_share_demo.SharedActivity"

android:icon="@drawable/share_this"

android:label="@string/shared_activity" >

<intent-filter>

</intent-filter>

</activity>

</application>

</manifest>

10. Now, you are all done, run your app and you will get the output as shown in video.

Thanks.

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