Send a tweet to the Twitter application - Android Intent

Android examples for Intent:Twitter

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Description

Send a tweet to the Twitter application

Demo Code

/* Copyright (c) 2010 ARTags project owners (see http://www.artags.org)
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version./*from www .  ja v  a  2  s . co m*/
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */
//package com.java2s;
import android.content.ComponentName;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.pm.ActivityInfo;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.content.pm.ResolveInfo;
import java.util.List;

public class Main {
    private static final String TWITTER_POST_ACTIVITY = "com.twitter.android.PostActivity";
    private static final String CONTENT_TYPE_TEXT = "text/plain";

    /**
     * Send a tweet to the Twitter application
     * @param context The context
     * @param message The message
     * @return True if OK otherwise false
     */
    public static boolean send(Context context, String message) {
        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, message);
        intent.setType(CONTENT_TYPE_TEXT);
        final PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager();
        final List activityList = pm.queryIntentActivities(intent, 0);
        int len = activityList.size();
        boolean bTwitterStarted = false;
        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
            final ResolveInfo app = (ResolveInfo) activityList.get(i);
            if (TWITTER_POST_ACTIVITY.equals(app.activityInfo.name)) {
                final ActivityInfo activity = app.activityInfo;
                final ComponentName name = new ComponentName(
                        activity.applicationInfo.packageName, activity.name);
                intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
                intent.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_LAUNCHER);
                intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK
                        | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_RESET_TASK_IF_NEEDED);
                intent.setComponent(name);
                intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, message);
                context.startActivity(intent);
                bTwitterStarted = true;
                break;
            }
        }
        return bTwitterStarted;
    }
}

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