social_share

Wide variety of sharing options you'll need to share directly to certain popular apps or just share with default native share.

Introduction

Works on both platforms Android and iOS

It provides you with most of the popular sharing options With this plugin you can share on instagram stories and facebook stories and also copy to clipboard

Usage

Android Configuration

Paste the following attribute in the manifest tag in the android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml:

 		`xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"`

For example:

        <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
                xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
                package="your package...">

Add this piece of code in the manifest/application in the android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml:

 		<provider
            android:name="androidx.core.content.FileProvider"
            android:authorities="${applicationId}.com.shekarmudaliyar.social_share"
            android:exported="false"
            android:grantUriPermissions="true"
            tools:replace="android:authorities">
            <meta-data
                android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"
                android:resource="@xml/filepaths" />
        </provider>

Create a xml file named filepaths.xml in the app/src/main/res/xml folder and paste this code in the file :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<paths xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <cache-path name="image" path="/"/>
</paths>

Add preferred social media to avoid issues on Android 12

    <!-- social share -->
	<package android:name="com.instagram.android" />
	<package android:name="com.twitter.android" />
	<package android:name="com.whatsapp" />
	<package android:name="com.whatsapp.w4b" />
	<package android:name="org.telegram.messenger" />

GOOGLE Play Notice:

if you want to deploy your app in google play with this package you should mention that you gather other apps information ephemerally in Data Safety Form

iOS Configuration

Add this to your Info.plist to use share on instagram and facebook story

<key>LSApplicationQueriesSchemes</key>
	<array>
	<string>instagram-stories</string>
	<string>facebook-stories</string>
	<string>facebook</string>
	<string>instagram</string>
	<string>twitter</string>
	<string>whatsapp</string>
    <string>tg</string>
	</array>

Add this if you are using share on facebook. For this you have to create an app on https://developers.facebook.com/ and get the App ID

<key>FacebookAppID</key>
<string>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</string>

shareInstagramStory

SocialShare.shareInstagramStory(imageFile.path, "#ffffff",
                              "#000000", "https://deep-link-url");

shareInstagramStorywithBackground

 SocialShare.shareInstagramStorywithBackground(image.path, "https://deep-link-url",
                              backgroundImagePath: backgroundimage.path);

shareFacebookStory

For iOS

SocialShare.shareFacebookStory(image.path,"#ffffff","#000000",
                              "https://deep-link-url","facebook-app-id");

For Android appID is mandatory if using shareFacebookStory or else it wont work

SocialShare.shareFacebookStory(image.path,"#ffffff","#000000",
                              "https://deep-link-url","facebook-app-id",
							  appId: "xxxxxxxxxxxxx");

copyToClipboard

SocialShare.copyToClipboard("This is Social Share plugin");

shareTwitter

//without hashtags
SocialShare.shareTwitter("This is Social Share plugin");

//with hashtags
SocialShare.shareTwitter(
                              "This is Social Share twitter example",
                              hashtags: ["hello", "world", "foo", "bar"]);

//with hashtags and link
SocialShare.shareTwitter(
                              "This is Social Share twitter example",
                              hashtags: ["hello", "world", "foo", "bar"],url:"https://your-url-here/");

shareSms

//without url link in message
SocialShare.shareSms("This is Social Share Sms example");

//with url link in message
SocialShare.shareSms("This is Social Share Sms example",url: "https://your-url-here/");

shareWhatsapp

SocialShare.shareWhatsapp("Hello World");

shareTelegram

SocialShare.shareTelegram("Hello World");

shareOptions

This will open the default native share options

//without an image
SocialShare.shareOptions("Hello world");

//with an image
SocialShare.shareOptions("Hello world",imagePath: image.path);

checkInstalledAppsForShare

SocialShare.checkInstalledAppsForShare();

Here's few demo!

Story share on Instagram

Story share on Facebook

Copy to Clipboard

Known issues

On Android 6, Share to Instagram Stories may not open Instagram app or load the specified image.

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