[SOLVED] Use ACTION_VIEW with Google Plus android

Use ACTION_VIEW with Google Plus android

I need to create buttons for social sharing in my Android app. I've used ACTION_VIEW to open url with specific text in browser for sharing. Here some examples:

Intent browserIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text="+trackable));
                startActivity(browserIntent);

Intent browserIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://m.facebook.com/sharer.php?u="+trackable));
                startActivity(browserIntent);

How can I do the same interacting with google+ ?

Solution

You can use ShareCompat.IntentBuilder from the support library. For instance:

Intent shareIntent = ShareCompat.IntentBuilder.from(this)
         .setText("Hello Google+!")
         .getIntent()
         .setPackage("com.google.android.apps.plus");

A more elegant and expandable solution (specific to Google+) is to use Google Play Services' PlusShare.Builder (here also supplying a link):

Intent shareIntent = new PlusShare.Builder(this)
          .setType("text/plain")
          .setText("Hello Google+!")
          .setContentUrl(Uri.parse("https://developers.google.com/+/"))
          .getIntent();

Note that this doesn't open the browser; it will open the Google+ app to allow the user to share comfortably from the app.