Best way for social sharing in Android

Question

I\'ve been looking for a way to share information to social networks. I\'ve found 2 possible solutions:

• Look for installed apps and sent an intent (like android us

Answer 1

The Android OS uses intents to do this... While searching for an answer to this question I came across:

Social sharing on mobile

Quoting @NewProggie

Intent share = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
share.setType("image/jpeg") // might be text, sound, whatever
share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, pathToPicture);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(share, "share"));

Depending on the MIME type you put in for setType, the chooser will show email, gmail, SMS, twitter, facebook, flickr, or whatever!

This is the easiest way to share content for the developer, and a proven method.