Not all available share channels can be selected

[floatinghotpot]

The plugin is amazing and so easy to share to social media. Great job!

Still some confusing issue:
When calling window.plugins.socialsharing.share(msg, subject, img, link); The popup window only display some of the share channels and omit some important others.

See the screenshot:
Left popup is from system default photo app,
Right popup is from plugin share:

Env: Android, SAMSUNG S4

[EddyVerbruggen]

Hi Raymond!

Thanks for the kudos ;)

I was looking into this issue and was trying to find the 2 marked apps (nice bug report btw). DO you perhaps have a direct link to the Play store for these apps, or can you tell me what the English word for the one on the right is? I hope those apps can be found in the NL store as well.

More to the point: Android determines which apps to show based on the mime type, which is set to "image/*". The receiving apps need to register themselves as an app which can handle files of that type. Maybe the two apps not showing up only listen to "image/jpeg" (or something similar). If that's the case, I'd better change the mimetype of the intent based on the image shared, but I'd like to debug with a misbehaving app for that..

Something to try: pass nulls except for the image param to see if it makes a difference.

Thanks,
Eddy

[floatinghotpot]

Hi Eddy,

Thanks for your reply.

The right app is "WeChat"(Chinese name: 微信) from Tencent, a China company, but they have nearly 600M users (yes, 600M! ), so it's important to support it.

But it's quite strange that, the app has 2 share ways, one to share to chat with friends (发送给朋友), another is share to "discovery" (发送到朋友圈), just like someone's own cyberspace or facebook/twitter like. The first one is supported (you can see it), but the second is not.

It will try your suggestion to pass only image param and see any difference.

[EddyVerbruggen]

Hi,

I've just installed WeChat on my Nexus 7 (old model), tried sharing like this and saw the list of apps in the screenshot ('Send to moments' is the WeChat app 发送到朋友圈):

window.plugins.socialsharing.share('My text', 'My subject', 'https://www.google.nl/images/srpr/logo11w.png', null, function(){alert("ok")}, function(e){alert("error: " + e)});

When leaving the msg and subject params null the list is the same. Can you try with this same snippet?

[floatinghotpot]

Hi Eddy,

Yes, the snippet works.
And, very strange, the original code also works now, and I changed nothing! I can even see the "Send to moments" in a version packed two days ago! (see the screenshot below)
I am totally confused ... Anyway, working is great.

One more question, I'd like to share to some often used apps quickly, and if I write:

window.plugins.socialsharing.shareVia('com.tencent.mm', msg, subject, img, link, 
    function(){}, onShareFailed);

It just share to "Send to Chat", how can I share to "Send to Moments" (which is more welcome) directly?

[floatinghotpot]

Eddy, I've add the feature to specify activity name if the social app offers multiple sharing ways.

A pull request is created.

[EddyVerbruggen]

Thanks a lot buddy!

[floatinghotpot]

Hi Eddy,
I’d like to suggest you to publish your amazing socialsharing to cordova plugin registry with cordova CLI tool: plugman, then it can be used by cordova CLI with just plugin id. Are you interested?
See:
http://plugins.cordova.io/
https://www.npmjs.org/package/plugman

[EddyVerbruggen]

Hey Raymond,

Yes I am and ever tried it once but for a reason I can't remember I didn't succeed.

The cli said it was submitted but it wasn't..

Have you been able to submit a plugin to the registry yourself?

Thanks,
Eddy

[floatinghotpot]

Yes, I just know this registry and submitted 5 plugins. :P
http://plugins.cordova.io/#/search?search=rjfun

I modified the plugin.xml a little bit before publish succeed.

1. change version number to "x.y.z" format like "1.0.0", since "1.0" is not allowed.
2. add a bit url info.

See the diff:
floatinghotpot/cordova-plugin-admob@f64dff4

[EddyVerbruggen]

Thanks - the x.y.z may have been my problem as I only recently started to use that (recommended) scheme.

Will be testing it soon!

[EddyVerbruggen]

Hi,

Found the rootcause of my plugins.cordova.io trouble: all of my plugins have a dash in its ID (nl.x-services.plugins.*). There is a regexp bug in plugman preventing me from submitting my plugins because of this.

Just created this issue, hope they'll fix it soon: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7079