Android Share Intent For Pinterest Not Working

I am doing an android share intent for Pinterest but is not fully working. I am able to attach the image but I can't send text to the 'description' field in the share window. I've

Solution 1:

I found a way to share to Pinterest with plain Android intents (without using the Pinterest SDK), with help from Pin It button developer docs.

Basically you just open an URL like this with Intent.ACTION_VIEW; the official Pinterest app kindly supports these URLs. (I've earlier used a very similar approach for sharing to Twitter.)

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/
   ?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fkentbrew%2F6851755809%2F             
   &media=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm8.staticflickr.com%2F7027%2F6851755809_df5b2051c9_z.jpg
   &description=Next%20stop%3A%20Pinterest

And for smoother user experience, set the intent to open directly in Pinterest app, if installed.

A complete example:

StringshareUrl="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27388056/";
StringmediaUrl="http://cdn.sstatic.net/stackexchange/img/logos/so/so-logo.png";
Stringdescription="Pinterest sharing using Android intents"Stringurl= String.format(
    "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=%s&media=%s&description=%s", 
     urlEncode(shareUrl), urlEncode(mediaUrl), urlEncode(description));
Intentintent=newIntent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(url));
filterByPackageName(context, intent, "com.pinterest");
context.startActivity(intent);

Util methods used above:

publicstaticvoidfilterByPackageName(Context context, Intent intent, String prefix) {
    List<ResolveInfo> matches = context.getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(intent, 0);
    for (ResolveInfo info : matches) {
        if (info.activityInfo.packageName.toLowerCase().startsWith(prefix)) {
            intent.setPackage(info.activityInfo.packageName);
            return;
        }
    }
}

publicstaticStringurlEncode(String s) {
    try {
        returnURLEncoder.encode(s, "UTF-8");
    }
    catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        Log.wtf("", "UTF-8 should always be supported", e);
        return"";
    }
}

This is the result on a Nexus 5 with Pinterest app installed:

And if Pinterest app is not installed, sharing works just fine via a browser too:

Solution 2:

for some reason pinterest app doesn't comply to the standard (Intent.EXTRA_TEXT) so we have to add it separately

if(appInfo.activityInfo.packageName.contains("com.pinterest"){
        shareIntent.putExtra("com.pinterest.EXTRA_DESCRIPTION","your description");
}

Solution 3:

FileimageFileToShare=newFile(orgimagefilePath);

Uriuri= Uri.fromFile(imageFileToShare);

IntentsharePintrestIntent=newIntent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sharePintrestIntent.setPackage("com.pinterest");
sharePintrestIntent.putExtra("com.pinterest.EXTRA_DESCRIPTION", text);
sharePintrestIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
sharePintrestIntent.setType("image/*");
startActivityForResult(sharePintrestIntent, PINTEREST);