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Filter out Intents you don"t want to show from a IntentChooser dialog. For example your own app, competing apps or just apps you have a share integration by SDK already :)
Based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5734678/custom-filtering-of-intent-chooser-based-on-installed-android-package-name/8550043#8550043
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// Usage: | |
// blacklist | |
String[] blacklist = new String[]{"com.any.package", "net.other.package"}; | |
// your share intent | |
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND); | |
intent.setType("text/plain"); | |
intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "some text"); | |
intent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "a subject"); | |
// ... anything else you want to add | |
// invoke custom chooser | |
startActivity(generateCustomChooserIntent(intent, blacklist)); | |
// Method: | |
private Intent generateCustomChooserIntent(Intent prototype, String[] forbiddenChoices) { | |
List<Intent> targetedShareIntents = new ArrayList<Intent>(); | |
List<HashMap<String, String>> intentMetaInfo = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>(); | |
Intent chooserIntent; | |
Intent dummy = new Intent(prototype.getAction()); | |
dummy.setType(prototype.getType()); | |
List<ResolveInfo> resInfo = getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(dummy, 0); | |
if (!resInfo.isEmpty()) { | |
for (ResolveInfo resolveInfo : resInfo) { | |
if (resolveInfo.activityInfo == null || Arrays.asList(forbiddenChoices).contains(resolveInfo.activityInfo.packageName)) | |
continue; | |
HashMap<String, String> info = new HashMap<String, String>(); | |
info.put("packageName", resolveInfo.activityInfo.packageName); | |
info.put("className", resolveInfo.activityInfo.name); | |
info.put("simpleName", String.valueOf(resolveInfo.activityInfo.loadLabel(getPackageManager()))); | |
intentMetaInfo.add(info); | |
} | |
if (!intentMetaInfo.isEmpty()) { | |
// sorting for nice readability | |
Collections.sort(intentMetaInfo, new Comparator<HashMap<String, String>>() { | |
@Override | |
public int compare(HashMap<String, String> map, HashMap<String, String> map2) { | |
return map.get("simpleName").compareTo(map2.get("simpleName")); | |
} | |
}); | |
// create the custom intent list | |
for (HashMap<String, String> metaInfo : intentMetaInfo) { | |
Intent targetedShareIntent = (Intent) prototype.clone(); | |
targetedShareIntent.setPackage(metaInfo.get("packageName")); | |
targetedShareIntent.setClassName(metaInfo.get("packageName"), metaInfo.get("className")); | |
targetedShareIntents.add(targetedShareIntent); | |
} | |
chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(targetedShareIntents.remove(targetedShareIntents.size() - 1), getString(R.string.share)); | |
chooserIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, targetedShareIntents.toArray(new Parcelable[]{})); | |
return chooserIntent; | |
} | |
} | |
return Intent.createChooser(prototype, getString(R.string.share)); | |
} |
Can anybody explain to me what is significance of this "targetedShareIntents.remove(targetedShareIntents.size() - 1)"
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Thanks! I made a Kotlin version => https://gist.github.com/Kevinrob/fef4359f68228ae0bcb803402e7715fa