How to share image from link ,i.e, without downloading the image just share using a button

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I am beginner in android studio and i think it will be easy but also I am not getting that

How to share image from link ,i.e, without downloading the image just share on social media like whats app .I can download the image and then share and then delete that but I do not want to do that. I am using glide library to load the image in Image view and then when a user click on a button it will just share its image which is showing in image view and whose link i have and then come back to the app.

I am using Glide library for loading image.

Any help will be grateful.

Thanks in advance.

if you want the know about deleting after sharing then do notify me — ashad, Oct 23 '18 at 13:47

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '18 at 13:46

first you need to load image in glide(as you are using glide ) then you can share it to anywhere but image will be saved to storage

code to load image from glide (image is being saved to storage, you can delete it later)

       Glide.with(getApplicationContext())
                    .load(imagelink)   \\link of your image file (url)
                    .asBitmap().skipMemoryCache(true).diskCacheStrategy(DiskCacheStrategy.NONE)

                    .into(new SimpleTarget<Bitmap>(250, 250) {
                        @Override
                        public void onResourceReady(Bitmap resource, GlideAnimation glideAnimation) {


                            Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
                            intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Hey view/download this image");
                            String path = MediaStore.Images.Media.insertImage(getContentResolver(), resource, "", null);


                            Uri screenshotUri = Uri.parse(path);



                            intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, screenshotUri);
                            intent.setType("image/*");

                            startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share image via..."));
                        }

                        @Override
                        public void onLoadFailed(Exception e, Drawable errorDrawable) {
                            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Something went wrong", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();


                            super.onLoadFailed(e, errorDrawable);
                        }

                        @Override
                        public void onLoadStarted(Drawable placeholder) {
                            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Starting", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

                            super.onLoadStarted(placeholder);
                        }
});

If you want then delete that image from storage by adding some more code

This code is not working for newer versions. Any thing else can anyone suggest..? — Parag Wadhwani, Jun 18 '22 at 15:12

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 06 '18 at 10:40

Actually link is also a text, so you can share it like this:

Intent sendIntent = new Intent();
sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, yourUrlOfImage);
sendIntent.setType("text/plain");
startActivity(sendIntent);

How to share image from link ,i.e, without downloading the image just share using a button

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