This plugin makes the Android the share feature available to Flutter for incoming shares.

Features

  • general shares
  • specific share targets

Usage

To use this plugin you need to add the following to the main activity in your manifest.xml on Android. The activity needs:

    android:exported="true"

and

<intent-filter>
	<action  android:name="android.intent.action.SEND" />
	<category  android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
	<data  android:mimeType="*/*" />
</intent-filter>

To receive multiple files in one go, add the following:

<intent-filter>
	<action  android:name="android.intent.action.SEND_MULTPILE" />
	<category  android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT" />
	<data  android:mimeType="*/*" />
</intent-filter>

You need one intent-filter filter per mimeType filter.

Share targets

For share targets you need to create an xml file in your resource folder, e.g. like this one:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shortcuts  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
	<share-target  android:targetClass="de.cobinja.example.MainActivity">
		<data  android:mimeType="text/plain" />
		<category  android:name="de.cobinja.CATEGORY_ONE" />
	</share-target>
</shortcuts>

This xml file has to be referenced for the activity in your Manifest.xml:

<meta-data
  android:name="android.app.shortcuts"
  android:resource="@xml/shortcuts" />

For more information on how to compose these shortcut xml files please see Android's documentation

Please also see the included example.

Additional information

This is a federated plugin, so implementations for platforms other than Android are welcome. Due to my lack of Apple hardware I cannot implement it for their products myself.

Libraries

cobi_flutter_share