How to create simple android share button

How to create simple android Share button

Today we are going to learn how to create a simple android share button.

 Lessons to learn:

• Adding Toolbar
• Using WebView 
• Creating android menu
• Using onOptionsItemSelected method to listen to selected MenuItems.

Let get started

Create a new project and name it "EasyShareExample"

Package name :net.techoverload.www.easyshareexample

Add some drawables i.e Notification,settings and share 

activity_main.xml code

MainActivity.java code

   

package net.techoverload.www.easyshareexample;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuInflater;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.webkit.WebSettings;
import android.webkit.WebView;


public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    private WebView webView;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        Toolbar toolbar=findViewById(R.id.my_toolbar);
        setSupportActionBar(toolbar);

        webView=findViewById(R.id.webView);
        WebSettings webSettings=webView.getSettings();
        webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        webView.loadUrl("http://www.mafisizone.com");

    }

    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu)
    {
        MenuInflater inflater=getMenuInflater();
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.top_nav,menu);

        return  true;
    }

    public  boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item)
    {
        switch (item.getItemId())
        {
            case R.id.top_nav_share:

            {
                String tittle=webView.getTitle();
                String url=webView.getUrl();
//sharing implementation here
                Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
                sharingIntent.setType("text/plain");
                sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, tittle);
                sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, url);
                startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share via"));

                return true;
            }

        }

        return  true;
    }



}

Menu.xml code

Output

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