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POShare Intent list menu available on device orientation changed (shareActionProvider)
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copied!<p>After couple of hours of investigations and trying to find a solution I’ve decided to write here my problem in idea that maybe someone else face it also and found a fix for it. I have a application with a menu, one of the options being a <strong>Share option</strong>, declare like this in menu xml file:</p> <pre><code><item android:id="@+id/menu_share" android:actionProviderClass="android.widget.ShareActionProvider" android:title="Share"/> </code></pre> <p>In <code>onOptionsItemSelected</code> method I create and set the share intent:</p> <pre><code>private ShareActionProvider shareActionProvider; @Override public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) { switch (item.getItemId()) { case R.id.menu_share: MenuItem actionItem = optionsMenu.findItem(R.id.menu_share); shareActionProvider = (ShareActionProvider) actionItem.getActionProvider(); shareActionProvider.setShareIntent(createShareIntent()); return true; default: return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item); } } </code></pre> <p>When pressing the Share menu option the list with apps to share is displayed. <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/BYUdQ.png" alt="enter image description here"> What I want is when I rotate the device that list to be visible, but instead is disappearing. To mention that I can’t use <code>android:configChanges</code> in order to prevent the activity from being recreated.</p> <p>I wanted first to see how can I open that share apps list programmatically.</p> <p>a). Calling the below method nothing visual happens; it just updates the <code>ShareActionProvider</code></p> <pre><code>public void showShareItemList() { MenuItem actionItem = optionsMenu.findItem(R.id.menu_share); shareActionProvider = (ShareActionProvider) actionItem.getActionProvider(); shareActionProvider.setShareIntent(createShareIntent()); } </code></pre> <p>b). Calling the below method opens a new activity – but not a menu options list like in the picture above.</p> <pre><code>public void showShareItemList2(){ Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(); sharingIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND); sharingIntent.setType("text/plain"); sharingIntent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Subject Here"); startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sharingIntent, "Share")); } </code></pre> <p>Result: <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/mqpjG.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p>c).The below method just opens the menu option:</p> <pre><code>public void showShareItemList3() { openOptionsMenu(); // programmatically open the options menu } </code></pre> <p><strong>So, is there a way to open the share item list of applications programmatically ? Or at least is there a way to press menu key programmatically ( = programatically select a menu item)?</strong></p> <p>Another issue is <strong>how can I know if the share list is visible on orientation changed?</strong> </p> <p>For this I’m using a <code>boolean</code> variable <code>private boolean isShareOptionMenuListVisible = false;</code> which I save it on method <code>onSaveInstanceState()</code> and restored it in <code>onCreate()</code> method. I make <code>isShareOptionMenuListVisible = true</code> when the Share item is pressed, but I could not find a way to make it to false when is not visible anymore. Using the override method <code>onOptionsMenuClosed</code> is not helping me because this <em>“is called whenever the options menu is being closed”</em> (this is in documentation, even if I can say this is not real because in my app is never called), and I want to know when the Share apps options menu is being closed.</p> <p>Here is a sample documented project which demonstrates all the above issues: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/d4t2di1x70ljkt3/ShareIntent.zip" rel="nofollow noreferrer">project link</a>.</p> <p>Any help is welcome! Thanks.</p>

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