Share text and image on twitter and email does not load the image in android 4.4 ACTION_SEND

Question

I have made the share text and picture on twitter with the intent ACTION_SEND, my images are accessed from my assets folder, for permission to access these resources have implemented a content provider and assigned permissions have, I tested the action of sharing in android 4.1.2 and running, but when testing with android 4.4 mark me an error and does not filter that you can not add image, text me just add, I did a test changing that image for the drawable and lists the image as a publisher but no longer done by giving adds.

Declaration of my content provider in manifest.xml

  <provider
        android:name="com.domain.app.helper.ImageProvider" 
        android:authorities="com.domain.app"
        android:grantUriPermissions="true"
           android:exported="true"
           android:multiprocess="true"
        >
    </provider>

My content provider class

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;

import android.content.ContentProvider;
import android.content.ContentValues;
import android.content.res.AssetFileDescriptor;
import android.content.res.AssetManager;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.util.Log;

public class ImageProvider extends ContentProvider {

@Override
public int delete(Uri arg0, String arg1, String[] arg2) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    return 0;
}

@Override
public String getType(Uri arg0) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    return null;
}

@Override
public Uri insert(Uri arg0, ContentValues arg1) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    return null;
}

@Override
public boolean onCreate() {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    return false;
}

@Override
public Cursor query(Uri arg0, String[] arg1, String arg2, String[] arg3,
        String arg4) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    return null;
}

@Override
public int update(Uri arg0, ContentValues arg1, String arg2, String[] arg3) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    return 0;
}

@Override
public AssetFileDescriptor openAssetFile(Uri uri, String mode) throws FileNotFoundException {
    AssetManager am = getContext().getAssets();
    String file_name = uri.getLastPathSegment();
    Log.i("ICP", file_name);
    if(file_name == null)
        throw new FileNotFoundException();

    AssetFileDescriptor afd = null;
    try {
        afd = am.openFd("images/recipes/" + file_name);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return afd;
} 

}

Using my content provider in terms of sharing

@SuppressLint("DefaultLocale")
private void share(View v, String nameApp, String infoText, String nameImage) {

    try {

        List<Intent> targetedShareIntents = new ArrayList<Intent>();
        Intent share = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        share.setType("image/jpeg");
        List<ResolveInfo> resInfo = context.getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(share, 0);
        if (!resInfo.isEmpty()){
            for (ResolveInfo info : resInfo) {
                Intent targetedShare = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);


                if (info.activityInfo.packageName.toLowerCase().contains(nameApp) || 
                        info.activityInfo.name.toLowerCase().contains(nameApp)) {

                    //fix Facebook only share link
                    if (info.activityInfo.packageName.toLowerCase().contains("facebook") || 
                            info.activityInfo.name.toLowerCase().contains("facebook")){

                        targetedShare.setType("text/plain"); // put here your mime type
                        targetedShare.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "The app");
                        targetedShare.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, context.getResources().getString(R.string.url_short_app) );
                    }
                    else{
                        ///targetedShare.setType( "image/*");
                        targetedShare.setType( "*/*");

                        String bodyMsg = infoText + ", " + context.getResources().getString(R.string.firm_shared) +" > " + context.getResources().getString(R.string.url_short_app);
                        targetedShare.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, bodyMsg);
 //this change for test
//Uri uri = Uri.parse("android.resource://"+context.getPackageName()+"/drawable/table");


                        Uri theUri = Uri.parse("content://"+context.getPackageName()+"/"+nameImage);

                        targetedShare.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, theUri);

                    } 
                    targetedShare.setPackage(info.activityInfo.packageName);
                    targetedShareIntents.add(targetedShare);

                }
            }

            Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(targetedShareIntents.remove(0), "Select app to share");
            chooserIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, targetedShareIntents.toArray(new Parcelable[]{}));
            v.getContext().startActivity(chooserIntent);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.i("ERROR_SHARE", e.toString());
    }
}

I hope you can help me find out what the fault have

I'm assuming that android 4.4 has changed the way to access content provider resources

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 11 '14 at 19:39

Yes, Android 4.4 KitKat does change a lot of things. Since you are using the MmsSms provider to send the message, it will (silently) deny writing to the ContentProvider unless you are the "default SMS app"

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.4.html#SMS

Our company is working on an "open" solution to this, but I do not know of any at this time... it simply won't work for you.

Share text and image on twitter and email does not load the image in android 4.4 ACTION_SEND

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