Passing URL from WebView to ShareActionProvider?

android, shareactionprovider, webview

Solution

Your code above doesn't work because `onCreateOptionsMenu` is called only once, the first time the options menu is displayed.

Fixing this is quite easy. We're building our Intent when `onOptionsItemSelected` is called. This is when any resource of the inflated menu is selected. If the selected item is the share resource, `shareURL`is executed which now builds and starts the Intent.

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

@Override
public final boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()) {
        case R.id.menu_item_share:
            shareURL();
    }
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}

private void shareURL() {
    Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
    shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
    shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, web.getUrl());
    startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share This!"));
}

I didn't test the code sample above. Neither on an actual device nor with the Java compiler. Nevertheless it should help you solving your problem.

Problem

I want to take whatever page the user user is on in my WebView and allow them to share the URL with FaceBook/etc as a ACTION_SEND intent. I tried this but obviously the URL doesn't exist in the onCreateOptionsMenu. How can I move it to the onOptionsItemsSelected? ``` private ShareActionProvider mShareActionProvider; @Override public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item); } @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu); MenuItem item = menu.findItem(R.id.menu_item_share); mShareActionProvider = (ShareActionProvider)item.getActionProvider(); mShareActionProvider.setShareHistoryFileName( ShareActionProvider.DEFAULT_SHARE_HISTORY_FILE_NAME); mShareActionProvider.setShareIntent(createShareIntent()); return true; } private Intent createShareIntent() { Intent shareIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND); shareIntent.setType("text/plain"); shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, web.getUrl()); return shareIntent; } ```

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