social_sharing_plus 1.1.0

A Flutter plugin for sharing content, images and videos to social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Reddit, and Telegram.

social_sharing_plus

social_sharing_plus is a Flutter plugin that allows you to share content, images and videos to various social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Reddit, and Telegram. This package provides a simple and unified interface for sharing across different apps, handling the nuances and differences of each platform.

Table of contents

• Setup

• Usage

• Properties

• Screenshots

• Dart Version

• Issues

• Contribute

• Author

• License

Setup

social_sharing_plus is supported on Android and iOS platforms. On the Android side, queries are made with the package names of the respective apps. This requires the addition of some Android-specific code.

Android (click to expand)

Add queries for app packages

You need to add the following queries to your app's AndroidManifest.xml file to ensure proper redirection to the respective social media apps:

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

    <queries>
        <!-- Query for Facebook -->
        <package android:name="com.facebook.katana" />
        <!-- Query for Twitter -->
        <package android:name="com.twitter.android" />
        <!-- Query for LinkedIn -->
        <package android:name="com.linkedin.android" />
        <!-- Query for Reddit -->
        <package android:name="com.reddit.frontpage" />
        <!-- Query for WhatsApp -->
        <package android:name="com.whatsapp" />
        <!-- Query for Telegram -->
        <package android:name="org.telegram.messenger" />
    </queries>

    <application>
         <!-- ... -->
    </application>
</manifest>

Media Sharing and Media Provider

This provides a specific file provider so that it can share files with other applications. To provide this functionality, you need to create an XML folder under the android>app>src>main>res folder and name it filepaths.xml. Then add the following code to the filepaths.xml file:

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

This XML file specifies what types of files your file provider can provide. Then add a <provider> tag in your AndroidManifest.xml file like this:

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

This <provider> tag specifies the authorization of your file provider and what file paths it provides. The android:authorities attribute specifies the identity of your file provider, and the ${applicationId}.fileprovider value uses your application's credentials. This ensures the security of your application while allowing other applications to access files.

iOS (click to expand)

No special configuration is needed for iOS.

---

dependencies:
  social_sharing_plus: <latest_version>    

Usage

class SharePage extends StatefulWidget {
  const SharePage({super.key});

  @override
  State<SharePage> createState() => _SharePageState();
}

class _SharePageState extends State<SharePage> {
  final TextEditingController _controller = TextEditingController();
  static const List<SocialPlatform> _platforms = SocialPlatform.values;

  final ImagePicker _picker = ImagePicker();
  String? _mediaPath;

  Future<void> _pickImage() async {
    final XFile? pickedFile = await _picker.pickImage(source: ImageSource.gallery);

    setState(() {
      if (pickedFile != null) _mediaPath = pickedFile.path;
    });
  }

  Future<void> _pickVideo() async {
    final XFile? pickedFile = await _picker.pickVideo(source: ImageSource.gallery);

    setState(() {
      if (pickedFile != null) _mediaPath = pickedFile.path;
    });
  }

  Future<void> _share(SocialPlatform platform) async {
    final String content = _controller.text;
    await SocialSharingPlus.shareToSocialMedia(
      platform,
      content,
      media: _mediaPath,
      isOpenBrowser: true,
      onAppNotInstalled: () {
        ScaffoldMessenger.of(context)
          ..hideCurrentSnackBar()
          ..showSnackBar(SnackBar(
            content: Text('${platform.name.capitalize} is not installed.'),
          ));
      },
    );
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        title: const Text('Social Sharing Example'),
      ),
      body: SingleChildScrollView(
        child: Center(
          child: Column(
            mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
            children: <Widget>[
              Padding(
                padding: const EdgeInsets.all(24),
                child: TextField(
                  controller: _controller,
                  decoration: const InputDecoration(
                    border: OutlineInputBorder(),
                    hintText: 'Enter a text',
                  ),
                ),
              ),
              Row(
                mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
                children: [
                  ElevatedButton(
                    onPressed: _pickImage,
                    child: const Text('Pick Image'),
                  ),
                  const SizedBox(width: 20),
                  if (Platform.isAndroid)
                    ElevatedButton(
                      onPressed: _pickVideo,
                      child: const Text('Pick Video'),
                    ),
                ],
              ),
              const SizedBox(height: 20),
              ..._platforms.map(
                (SocialPlatform platform) => ElevatedButton(
                  onPressed: () => _share(platform),
                  child: Text('Share to ${platform.name.capitalize}'),
                ),
              ),
            ],
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

Properties

Properties	Required	Default	Description
socialPlatform	true		Platform you want to share on
content	true		Any text you want to share
media	false		The image or video you want to share
isOpenBrowser	false	true	If the relevant application is not installed, it redirects to the link (browser) of the relevant application.
onAppNotInstalled	false		This method works if the application is not installed and the isOpenBrowser value is set to false. (For example: Showing a Snackbar like "The application is not installed on your device."...)

Screenshots

Dart Version

  sdk: '>=2.17.0 <4.0.0'

Issues

Please file any issues, bugs, or feature requests as an issue on our GitHub page.

Contribute

If you would like to contribute to the plugin (e.g. by improving the documentation, solving a bug, or adding a cool new feature), please carefully review our contribution guide and send us your pull request.

Author

This social_sharing_plus plugin for Flutter is developed by Bedirhan Sağlam. You can contact me at [e-mail]

License

MIT