Share Text on Facebook from Android App via ACTION_SEND

Question

Hey everybody, i have an Android app and it supports sending text via other apps. It therefore uses the ACTION_SEND intent and the EXTRA_TEXT field. The chooser presents me with all apps that can handle such an intent. Those are Twitter, EMail, ... and Facebook. But when i select Facebook it opens the browser and goes to the following page: http://m.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=mytext It shows my text and the submit button. But when i press the submit button nothing happends. The page just loads again. I think maybe it is only possible to send URLs via the Facebook App. Could that be?

Did anyone manage to send text via ACTION_SEND through the Facebook Android app?

Greets, Goddchen

Answer 1

same issue here

Answer 2

It appears that the Facebook app handles this intent incorrectly. The most reliable way seems to be to use the Facebook API for Android.

The SDK is at this link: http://github.com/facebook/facebook-android-sdk

Under 'usage', there is this:

Display a Facebook dialog.

The SDK supports several WebView html dialogs for user interactions, such as creating a wall post. This is intended to provided quick Facebook functionality without having to implement a native Android UI and pass data to facebook directly though the APIs.

This seems like the best way to do it -- display a dialog that will post to the wall. The only issue is that they may have to log in first