Apparently Facebook no longer (as of 2014) allows you to customise the sharing screen, no matter if you are just opening sharer.php URL or using Android intents in more specialised ways. See for example these answers:
- “Sharer.php no longer allows you to customize.”
- “You need to use Facebook Android SDK or Easy Facebook Android SDK to share.”
Anyway, using plain Intents, you can still share a URL, but not any default text with it, as billynomates commented. (Also, if you have no URL to share, just launching Facebook app with empty “Write Post” (i.e. status update) dialog is equally easy; use the code below but leave out EXTRA_TEXT.)
Here’s the best solution I’ve found that does not involve using any Facebook SDKs.
This code opens the official Facebook app directly if it’s installed, and otherwise falls back to opening sharer.php in a browser. (Most of the other solutions in this question bring up a huge “Complete action using…” dialog which isn’t optimal at all!)
String urlToShare = "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7545254";
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("text/plain");
// intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Foo bar"); // NB: has no effect!
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, urlToShare);
// See if official Facebook app is found
boolean facebookAppFound = false;
List<ResolveInfo> matches = getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(intent, 0);
for (ResolveInfo info : matches) {
if (info.activityInfo.packageName.toLowerCase().startsWith("com.facebook.katana")) {
intent.setPackage(info.activityInfo.packageName);
facebookAppFound = true;
break;
}
}
// As fallback, launch sharer.php in a browser
if (!facebookAppFound) {
String sharerUrl = "https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=" + urlToShare;
intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse(sharerUrl));
}
startActivity(intent);
(Regarding the com.facebook.katana package name, see MatheusJardimB’s comment.)
The result looks like this on my Nexus 7 (Android 4.4) with Facebook app installed:
