How to share a text link via text intent?

Question

I want to share a text clicking on which the user will navigate to a url via android share intent.

For example:

"Visit google for more info."

In above text, on clicking google, user will be redirected to google.com. I need to achieve something like this instead of showing the user the complete url. What i have tried is making it an html link with href which doesnt work.

So, How should i achieve it?

Ashish Ranjan · Answer 1 · 2016-07-12T07:59:52.307

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You must be using the type as plain text i.e, :

intent.setType("text/plain");

set the type to html like this :

intent.setType("text/html");

and it'll work.

So, you can use this to share a html text :

String textToShare = "Visit <a href=\"http://www.google.com\">google</a> for more info.";
Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);

intent.setType("text/html");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "sample");
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, Html.fromHtml(textToShare));

startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share"));

OUTPUT :

Here's a screenshot from the Gmail app :

edited Jul 12 '16 at 07:59

answered Jul 12 '16 at 07:17

Ashish Ranjan

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it doesn't shows whatsap or fb messenger to share. :/ – Hari Krishnan Jul 12 '16 at 07:44
so there's no way you can do this for such apps, however you can do this for email apps like Gmail. – Ashish Ranjan Jul 12 '16 at 07:50
check the screenshot in the updated answer, is it what you want? – Ashish Ranjan Jul 12 '16 at 08:00
yes it is. but i need it on all apps like whatsap, fb messenger n all. – Hari Krishnan Jul 12 '16 at 08:01
yeah so as i said there's no way you can do this for such apps. You'll have to share plain text i.e, with `text/plain` mime type to be able to share text in such apps and it will not be formatted like this. – Ashish Ranjan Jul 12 '16 at 08:05
it seems doesn't work nowadays with newest Android versions – user924 May 11 '23 at 15:40

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 12 '16 at 07:35

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Visit google

Use a href tag and set Text here with Html.fromHtml(); and set to textview

edited Jul 12 '16 at 07:35

Piyush

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answered Jul 12 '16 at 07:17

JAAD

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did you try it what i said – JAAD Jul 12 '16 at 09:10
yup. It works same as the above answer. It cannot share content via whasap or fb messenger. – Hari Krishnan Jul 12 '16 at 09:25

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 12 '16 at 07:16

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try like this:

use text view selection and long press listener to call share intent. otherwise you can use android spannable textview.

Refer this link for spannable textview with google search: http://androidcocktail.blogspot.in/2014/03/android-spannablestring-example.html

Uri uri = Uri.parse("http://www.google.com/#q=selected word here");
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);
startActivity(intent);

answered Jul 12 '16 at 07:16

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this is not share intent. I need to share the text, not directly open it on browser. – Hari Krishnan Jul 12 '16 at 07:42

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