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ionic capacitor share plugin not sharing image with whatsapp


I have created this function that shares image very well on many applications, but when it comes to WhatsApp or Instagram it not sharing the image.

I'm using Ionic v5 with capacitor v3


  async shareImage() {
    let receiptName = 'Receipt N:123.png';
    const div = this.screenshotElement.nativeElement;
    const divHeight = div.clientHeight;
    const divWidth = div.clientWidth;
    const options = { background: '#ffffff', width: divWidth, height: divHeight };

    await Filesystem.requestPermissions();

    let base64Data = await domtoimage.toPng(div, options);

    // device shareing
    await Filesystem.writeFile({
      path: receiptName,
      data: base64Data,
      directory: Directory.Cache
    });


    let fileResult = await Filesystem.getUri({
      directory: Directory.Cache,
      path: receiptName
    });

    let imageLink = Capacitor.convertFileSrc(fileResult.uri);

    Share.share({
      title: receiptName,
      text: receiptName,
      url: fileResult.uri,
    })
      .then(() => console.log('Successful share'))
      .catch((error) => console.log('Error sharing ::: ', error));

  }


import

import domtoimage from 'dom-to-image';
import { Share } from '@capacitor/share';
import { Filesystem, Directory, Encoding } from '@capacitor/filesystem';
import { Capacitor } from '@capacitor/core';
import { Camera, CameraResultType } from '@capacitor/camera';

package

 "@capacitor/android": "^3.1.1",
        "@capacitor/app": "^1.0.2",
        "@capacitor/camera": "^1.0.3",
        "@capacitor/cli": "^3.1.1",
        "@capacitor/core": "^3.1.1",
        "@capacitor/filesystem": "^1.0.2",
        "@capacitor/haptics": "^1.0.2",
        "@capacitor/ios": "^3.1.1",
        "@capacitor/keyboard": "^1.0.2",
        "@capacitor/push-notifications": "^1.0.3",
        "@capacitor/share": "^1.0.3",
        "@capacitor/status-bar": "^1.0.2",

Solution

  • I found that @capacitor/share has this known issue.

    see: https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor-plugins/issues/196

    I solved it by using

    npm install cordova-plugin-x-socialsharing
    npm install @ionic-native/social-sharing
    ionic cap sync
    

    see: https://ionicframework.com/docs/native/social-sharing