Android: Share plain text using intent (to all messaging apps)

Use the code as:

    /*Create an ACTION_SEND Intent*/    Intent intent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);    /*This will be the actual content you wish you share.*/    String shareBody = "Here is the share content body";    /*The type of the content is text, obviously.*/    intent.setType("text/plain");    /*Applying information Subject and Body.*/    intent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, getString(R.string.share_subject));    intent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, shareBody);    /*Fire!*/    startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, getString(R.string.share_using)));

New way of doing this would be using ShareCompat.IntentBuilder like so:

// Create and fire off our Intent in one fell swoopShareCompat.IntentBuilder        // getActivity() or activity field if within Fragment        .from(this)         // The text that will be shared        .setText(textToShare)        // most general text sharing MIME type        .setType("text/plain")         .setStream(uriToContentThatMatchesTheArgumentOfSetType)        /*         * [OPTIONAL] Designate a URI to share. Your type that          * is set above will have to match the type of data         * that your designating with this URI. Not sure         * exactly what happens if you don't do that, but          * let's not find out.         *          * For example, to share an image, you'd do the following:         *     File imageFile = ...;         *     Uri uriToImage = ...; // Convert the File to URI         *     Intent shareImage = ShareCompat.IntentBuilder.from(activity)         *       .setType("image/png")         *       .setStream(uriToImage)         *       .getIntent();         */        .setEmailTo(arrayOfStringEmailAddresses)        .setEmailTo(singleStringEmailAddress)        /*         * [OPTIONAL] Designate the email recipients as an array         * of Strings or a single String         */         .setEmailTo(arrayOfStringEmailAddresses)        .setEmailTo(singleStringEmailAddress)        /*         * [OPTIONAL] Designate the email addresses that will be          * BCC'd on an email as an array of Strings or a single String         */         .addEmailBcc(arrayOfStringEmailAddresses)        .addEmailBcc(singleStringEmailAddress)        /*          * The title of the chooser that the system will show         * to allow the user to select an app         */        .setChooserTitle(yourChooserTitle)        .startChooser();

If you have any more questions about using ShareCompat, I highly recommend this great article from Ian Lake, an Android Developer Advocate at Google, for a more complete breakdown of the API. As you'll notice, I borrowed some of this example from that article.

If that article doesn't answer all of your questions, there is always the Javadoc itself for ShareCompat.IntentBuilder on the Android Developers website. I added more to this example of the API's usage on the basis of clemantiano's comment.

This a great example about share with Intents in Android:

* Share with Intents in Android

//Share text:Intent intent2 = new Intent(); intent2.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);intent2.setType("text/plain");intent2.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Your text here" );  startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent2, "Share via"));//via Email:Intent intent2 = new Intent();intent2.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);intent2.setType("message/rfc822");intent2.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL, new String[]{EMAIL1, EMAIL2});intent2.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Email Subject");intent2.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Your text here" );  startActivity(intent2);//Share Files://Image:boolean isPNG = (path.toLowerCase().endsWith(".png")) ? true : false;Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);//Set type of fileif(isPNG){    i.setType("image/png");//With png image file or set "image/*" type}else{    i.setType("image/jpeg");}Uri imgUri = Uri.fromFile(new File(path));//Absolute Path of imagei.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, imgUri);//Uri of imagestartActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "Share via"));break;//APK:File f = new File(path1);if(f.exists()){   Intent intent2 = new Intent();   intent2.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);   intent2.setType("application/vnd.android.package-archive");//APk file type     intent2.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.fromFile(f) );     startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent2, "Share via"));}break;