Android: How to share image with text on facebook via intent?

Question

I\'d like to share a photo with caption pre-filled from my app via a share intent, on facebook.

Example code

Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.set         


        

Answer 1

As of 2017, facebook doesn't allow sharing of an image + text together, directly from your app.

Workaround

Facebook will though, scrape a URL for title and image data and will use that in a share post.

As a workaround you could create a single page application* that dynamically loads the text/image you want to share (specified in the URL) and you can facebook-share that URL.

Notes:

• Ensure your single page application produces a static page which has its title, open graph meta tags, and images set prior to facebook's page scrape. If these web page tags are changed dynamically through Javascript, facebook will not be able to scrape those values and use them in its share post.
• Use open graph meta property tags og:image:height and og:image:width to allow facebook to create an image preview within its share post

Steps

0) add the latest facebook-sdk library to your build.gradle file

compile group: 'com.facebook.android', name: 'facebook-android-sdk', version: '4.25.0'

1) In your AndroidManifest.xml, add a meta-data tag within your <application> section:

<application android:label="@string/app_name" ...>
...
    <meta-data android:name="com.facebook.sdk.ApplicationId" android:value="@string/facebook_app_id"/>
...
</application>

Add a facebook_app_id string (with your APP ID) to your strings.xml file:

<string name="facebook_app_id">12341234</string>

YOURFBAPPID is your Facebook App ID number found at https://developers.facebook.com/apps/

2) also add a <provider> tag outside of your <application> tag in AndroidManifest.xml

<provider android:authorities="com.facebook.app.FacebookContentProviderYOURFBAPPID"
          android:name="com.facebook.FacebookContentProvider"
          android:exported="true"/>

3) Create a ShareLinkContent object using their builder:

ShareLinkContent fbShare = new ShareLinkContent.Builder()
            .setContentUrl(Uri.parse("http://yourdomain.com/your-title-here/someimagefilename"))
            .build();

4) Share it from your fragment (or activity, etc.):

ShareDialog.show(getActivity(), fbShare);

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Facebook Docs

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/android/getting-started