Android share action link Menu, Icon Using intent in Android studio tutorial

This tutorial is gone show how to implement an effective and advanced way of implementing the Android share action link Menu, Icon Using intent passing your content, and building the Actionbar/toolbar,

– Implementing the share Intent allows users of your apps to share content across multiple platforms like play store app link Whatapps email, text messaging, social networking and Bluetooth, copy link You can give your users a good level of control over how they wish to share your content by letting them select from the list of sharing applications available on their own devices.

Create a new Project

2. Add menu declarations

-Create a menu directory and inside of directory, you can also create XML resources and past below code if you want to add the icon you can also add here. Android share action link Menu, Icon

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<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item
            android:id="@+id/menu_item_share"
            android:showAsAction="ifRoom"
            android:title="Share"
            android:actionProviderClass=
                "android.widget.ShareActionProvider" />
    ...
</menu>

3 Main Activity

-Android share action link Menu.

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private ShareActionProvider mShareActionProvider;
...
 
@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    // Inflate menu resource file.
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.share_menu, menu);
 
    // Locate MenuItem with ShareActionProvider
    MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_item_share);
 
    // Fetch and store ShareActionProvider
    mShareActionProvider = (ShareActionProvider) item.getActionProvider();
 
    // Return true to display menu
    return true;
}
 
// Call to update the share intent
private void setShareIntent(Intent shareIntent) {
    if (mShareActionProvider != null) {
        mShareActionProvider.setShareIntent(shareIntent);
    }
}

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Android share action link Menu, Icon Using intent in Android studio tutorial