Share intent issue in Instagram feed

Question

I have an app that shares images from url. Last android update, I got message from instagram \"Unable to load image\" when I want to share an image in instagram feed.

Answer 1

Looks like Facebook already has the bug for this issue: https://developers.facebook.com/support/bugs/1326888287510350/

As a temporary workaround you can save media to MediaStore. This is the method we use to store and then return the uri for Instagram sharing.

    private fun insertImageToMediaStore(file: File): Uri? {

    val fileUri = FileProvider.getUriForFile(
        context,
        "${context.applicationContext.packageName}.provider",
        file
    )
    val mimeType = context.contentResolver.getType(fileUri) ?: "image/*"
    val isImage = mimeType.contains("image")
    val values = ContentValues().apply {

        put(
            if (isImage) {
                MediaStore.Images.Media.DISPLAY_NAME
            } else {
                MediaStore.Video.Media.DISPLAY_NAME
            },
            file.name
        )

        put(
            if (isImage) {
                MediaStore.Images.Media.MIME_TYPE
            } else {
                MediaStore.Video.Media.MIME_TYPE
            },
            mimeType
        )
    }

    val collection = if (isImage) {
        MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI
    } else {
        MediaStore.Video.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI
    }

    val uri = context.contentResolver.insert(collection, values)

    uri?.let {
        context.contentResolver.openOutputStream(uri)?.use { outputStream ->
            try {
                outputStream.write(file.readBytes())
                outputStream.close()
            } catch (e: Exception) {
                e.printStackTrace()
            }
        }


        values.clear()

    } ?: throw RuntimeException("MediaStore failed for some reason")

    return uri
}