How we can implement add to any(Social networking) in MobileFirst

Question

How can we implement Add to any social network widget to share photos in facebook,twitter etc in Mobilefirst platform. I have tried the plugin from http://www.addthis.com/

Answer 1

Update: see this blog post for more information: https://developer.ibm.com/mobilefirstplatform/2015/08/03/integrating-3rd-party-cordova-plug-ins/

The mentioned "plug-in" does not seem fitting for mobile apps IMO.
You can google for Cordova social sharing plug-ins instead.

One promising such plug-in for Android, iOS and Windows Phone is the PhoneGap Social Sharing plugin.

Note: You cannot use the Cordova CLI installation steps to install the plug-in in Worklight/MobileFirst Platform. Instead, you need to follow the manual instructions that are provided.

Before doing so it would be prudent to read the MFP tutorial for working with Cordova plug-ins so you will understand how it works in MFP.

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I got it to work on iOS with some extra tweaks.

Note:

• Step 2 is required for Android and Windows Phone 8 as well in their respective environment
• Step 2 will need to be repeated after every build in MobileFirst Studio, because this file gets over-written on every build.
  
  

Steps:

1. There are two missing frameworks:
   • MessageUI.framework
   • Social.framework
     
     

2. Updating (in Xcode) www\worklight\cordova_plugins.js with an extra section

    {
        "file": "../js/SocialSharing.js",
        "id": "nl.x-services.plugins.socialsharing",
        "clobbers": [
            "window.plugins.socialsharing"
        ]
    }
   

   Note: SocialSharing.js should be placed in common\js as well as be referenced to in the HEAD element in index.html

3. Edit SocialSharing.js by wrapping the entire contents with

   cordova.define("nl.x-services.plugins.socialsharing", function(require, exports, module) {
       // file contents
   ); 
   

4. In your HTML, choose whichever sharing option you'd like from the available ones (see plug-in documentation for those).

End result: