Using Facebook SDK ShareDialog to share message and photo

Question

I am using the Facebook SDK for Android, because I want allow users to share an image generated in the app + a message which I would like to set already as suggestion.

I tried using the new ShareDialog, but somehow I cannot find a way to share a photo and a message. The FacebookDialog.PhotoShareDialogBuilder lets you share photos from the device, but not a message, whereas the FacebookDialog.ShareDialogBuilder lets you only share a link.

What can I use instead? Should I move away from using the share dialog?

what message would that be? just let the user fill it in, it must be 100% user generated anyway. — andyrandy
As @luschn mentioned, the message must be user generated, and prefilling it would violate Facebook Platform Policy. This is why the share dialogs don't have a field for you to set it. — Ming Li

Heshan Sandeepa Heshan Sandeepa · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-16T15:01:41

You can create alert dialog and edittext within it, then you can allow user to the add their comment.

For the image , you can get the image path for the file storage and load it as a Bitmap.

Then create a bundle with above comment and image and send a post Request to the fb API with the validated and opened session.

Using Facebook SDK ShareDialog to share message and photo

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