Hi guys, I like the user experience for sharing provided by ShareCompat.configureMenuItem. Instead of a basic chooser, it embeds drop-down sharing selection right in my app's action bar. It even remembers the most recently used share target and adds a button for it to my actionbar, so, frequently, sharing from my app is a single click. Cool!
However, when instrumenting my app for google analytics, I hit a snag. I cannot find any way to hook into the events of these generated menu items. :( I'm using ShareCompat.configureMenuItem this way: ShareCompat.configureMenuItem(menu, R.id.menu_share, shareIntentBuilder); ...and the sharing functionality totally works. :) I just can't find a way to hook into this user interaction for tracking purposes. I tried listening for sharing events in onOptionsItemSelected. - It is never called when clicking on the generated share buttons in the action bar. I tried adding my own explicit click listener to the menu item I'm passing to configureMenuItem. - It is never called when clicking on the generated share buttons in the action bar. I tried adding a click listener to the action view for the menu_share button. - It is never called... I have access to the Intent, but could not find a way to know when my share Intent is invoked. I have access to the ActionBar, but could not find a way to generically listen for clicks to any menu items that might be generated on the bar for my app. For now, I'm stuck using the old-style chooser for sharing, just so I can actually track this user activity in google analytics. I would very much like to know if the sharing feature is useful, and for which activities this feature is most popular, to guide the evolution of my app. But I also want to provide users with the shiny new actionbar sharing approach, when available through ShareCompat. Any thoughts or advice? Thank you, Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
