On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com>wrote:

> I've never seen a "share button" anywhere in Android. There is a "share
> page" menu choice in Browser, but a quick survey of other built-in apps
> that I use show neither a share button nor a share menu choice. Perhaps
> I use all the wrong apps.


Camera has a share option.  It is how you upload pictures to picasso, videos
to youtube, send through e-mail, etc.  All of these features are just
individual apps saying they can do that action.


> The Browser's "share page" menu choice uses Intent.createChooser(),
> which is cool and all, but that only seems to be used six times in the
> current source code, based on Google Code Search:
>
> MMS
> Email (message composition?)
> Music
> Camera
> Home (picking wallpaper, twice)
>
> Are there other "share" buttons/menu choices/whatever in built-in
> Android apps that are using other techniques for sharing besides
> createChooser()?


Those are probably the main uses.

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Dianne Hackborn
Android framework engineer
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