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Android

Posted by Juliana Miranda
Juliana Miranda
22,510 Points

How could I share CrystalBall?

If I wanted to share the answer that Crystal Ball gives me on facebook, twitter or any other, how could I do this?

I tried to search on google, youtube and here, but couldn't find a way to do that, considering that I'm a beginner. I managed to add a share button, But I can't make it work. Is it too hard?

4 Answers

Kate Hrycak
Kate Hrycak
5,542 Points
Kate Hrycak
Kate Hrycak
5,542 Points

Not too sure myself, Juliana, but StackOverflow seems to have a plethora of material around this, such as: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6814268/android-share-on-facebook-twitter-mail-ecc

Cheers,

Juliana Miranda
Juliana Miranda
22,510 Points
Juliana Miranda
Juliana Miranda
22,510 Points

Thank you, Kate

I'll try this..

Cheers!

Ben Jakuben
STAFF
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

We talk about sharing to apps that handle text sharing in the Blog Reader project. Take a look at the last stage in that one and see if it can help you adapt your Crystal Ball code. :)

Juliana Miranda
Juliana Miranda
263 Points

Thanks, I know it's been a long time, but I tried, and I was unable to adapt and build the intent to share... I wanted to share the final result, with the image and the text. I'll paste the code here (it's something that I adapted from CrystalBall...). 

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    private PP mPP = new PP();
    private TextView mAnswerLabel;
    private Button mGetAnswerButton;
    private ImageView mPreciosasPromessasImage;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        //Declare our view codes
        mPreciosasPromessasImage = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageView1);
        mAnswerLabel = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView1);
        mGetAnswerButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);

        mGetAnswerButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {


            @Override
            public void onClick(View arg0) {

                String answer = mPP.getAnAnswer();
                //Random selection of Verses.

                mAnswerLabel.setText(answer);

                animatePreciosasPromessas();
                animateAnswer();
                playSound();

            }
        });

    }

    private void animatePreciosasPromessas() {

        mPreciosasPromessasImage.setImageResource(R.drawable.animation);
        AnimationDrawable ppAnimation = (AnimationDrawable) mPreciosasPromessasImage.getDrawable();
        if(ppAnimation.isRunning()) {
            ppAnimation.stop();
        }
        ppAnimation.start();
    }

    private void animateAnswer() {
        AlphaAnimation fadeInAnimation = new AlphaAnimation (0, 1);
        fadeInAnimation.setDuration(1500);
        fadeInAnimation.setStartOffset(1000);
        fadeInAnimation.setFillAfter(true);

        mAnswerLabel.setAnimation(fadeInAnimation);
    }

    private void playSound() {
     MediaPlayer player = MediaPlayer.create(this, R.raw.dreamharp06);
     player.start();
     player.setOnCompletionListener(new OnCompletionListener() {

            @Override
            public void onCompletion(MediaPlayer mp) {
                mp.release();

            }
        });
    }




    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.menu, menu);

        return true;

    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

        int itemId = item.getItemId();

        if (itemId == R.id.action_share) {
            shareVerse();
        }

        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

    private void shareVerse() {
        Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        shareIntent.setType("*/*");
        startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, getString(R.string.share_chooser_title)));

    }
}
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Juliana,

Next time, add your post as a new one to bring it to the top of the recent page. :)

To share the text, you will need to add the text as an extra to your shareIntent:

shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, mUrl);

Now sharing an image is a bit more complex. I'd recommend just getting text to work first, and then trying to do both the text and image. I don't have any code to share for it right now, but you need to use something like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14326313/android-share-text-and-image

Juliana Miranda
Juliana Miranda
263 Points
Juliana Miranda
Juliana Miranda
263 Points

Hi Ben,

Thanks a lot!! It worked for the text, I finally understood the mUrl (I wasn't sure if I should use or how to adapt it to this app by watching the video, but now I figured that out).

I'll try the image later.

I appreciate your help! :)