How to attach image from drawable to gmail?

Question

I am trying to attach image from my gridview to gmail or facebook,but whenever i tried to attach my app got crash,and i am getting following error with nullpointer exceptio

Answer 1

This is what worked for me perfectly.

            Intent shareIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
            shareIntent.setType("image/jpeg");

            shareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, getResources().getString(R.string.share_subject));
            shareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, getResources().getString(R.string.share_message));

            shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("android.resource://" + C.PROJECT_PATH + "/drawable/" + R.drawable.image_to_share);

            startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share Image"));

But I will always recommend to decode a Bitmap from this resource, save it as a File in the storage and then use that file. A more reliable way this directly using from the resources.

Answer 2

Here is the working code which you need:

Firstly save image from Drawable to SD Card here is the code:

try{

Bitmap largeIcon = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.bubble_green);

            //replace "R.drawable.bubble_green" with the image resource you want to share from drawable 

            ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            largeIcon.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 40, bytes);

            // you can create a new file name "test.jpg" in sdcard folder.
            File f = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + File.separator + "test.jpg");

            f.createNewFile();

            // write the bytes in file
            FileOutputStream fo = new FileOutputStream(f);
            fo.write(bytes.toByteArray());

            // remember close de FileOutput
            fo.close();
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

Then get the saved image from SD card and attach in the email intent like this:

        Intent shareIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        shareIntent.setType("image/jpeg");

        shareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Hi"); //set your subject
        shareIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "How are you"); //set your message

        String imagePath = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + File.separator + "test.jpg";

        File imageFileToShare = new File(imagePath);

        Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(imageFileToShare);

        shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);

        startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share Image"));

Answer 3

First Convert your drwable to image and store it on SDCard

Store Drawable to SD card

---

Then

private void shareImage() {
        Intent share = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);

        // setType("image/png"); OR for jpeg: setType("image/jpeg");
        share.setType("image/*");

        // Make sure you put example png image named yourImg.png in your
        // directory

        String imagePath = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()
                + "/yourImg.png";

        File imageFileToShare = new File(imagePath);

        Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(imageFileToShare);
        share.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);

        startActivity(Intent.createChooser(share, "Share Image!"));
    }

Answer 4

roman thing is you are passing a null bitmap object

 Bitmap icon = mBitmap;

you need to assign bitmap first then the code will start work

for more info you can have a look on to below links :-

https://github.com/codepath/android_guides/wiki/Sharing-Content-with-Intents

http://developer.android.com/training/sharing/send.html