How to filter specific apps for ACTION_SEND intent (and set a different text for each app)

Question

How can you filter out specific apps when using the ACTION_SEND intent? This question has been asked in various ways, but I haven\'t been able to gather a

Answer 1

You can try the code below, it works perfectly.

Here we share to some specific apps, that are Facebook, Messenger, Twitter, Google Plus and Gmail.

public void shareIntentSpecificApps() {
        List intentShareList = new ArrayList();
        Intent shareIntent = new Intent();
        shareIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
        List resolveInfoList = getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(shareIntent, 0);

        for (ResolveInfo resInfo : resolveInfoList) {
            String packageName = resInfo.activityInfo.packageName;
            String name = resInfo.activityInfo.name;
            Log.d(TAG, "Package Name : " + packageName);
            Log.d(TAG, "Name : " + name);

            if (packageName.contains("com.facebook") ||
                    packageName.contains("com.twitter.android") ||
                    packageName.contains("com.google.android.apps.plus") ||
                    packageName.contains("com.google.android.gm")) {

                if (name.contains("com.twitter.android.DMActivity")) {
                    continue;
                }

                Intent intent = new Intent();
                intent.setComponent(new ComponentName(packageName, name));
                intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
                intent.setType("text/plain");
                intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Your Subject");
                intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Your Content");
                intentShareList.add(intent);
            }
        }

        if (intentShareList.isEmpty()) {
            Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "No apps to share !", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        } else {
            Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(intentShareList.remove(0), "Share via");
            chooserIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, intentShareList.toArray(new Parcelable[]{}));
            startActivity(chooserIntent);
        }
    }