facebook: Your link could not be shared

Question

I'm adding the ability to share scores from my app using android's share intent:

Intent shareIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
shareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "My Score");
shareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "I scored "+score+" on "+difficultyString+" difficulty.");

context.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share your score"));

When I choose Facebook from the chooser, it goes to m.facebook.com and says "Your link could not be shared". What's going wrong here?

Answer 1

My universal idea in such siturations is to sniff traffic between android & server and see what exactly been sent to the server when you run this code. The you can compare it to something which works, and this would give your some ideas.

Answer 2

Your intent code looks fine - have you tried installing a different FB app?

Answer 3

This is a common problem found in all android apps when trying to share to facebook. Facebook blocks other applications from sharing using their app. I'm not sure why, but many companies are trying to bypass this. Currently, it is "unfix-able". Sorry.