Android Share Intent for a Bitmap - is it possible not to save it prior sharing?

Question

I try to export a bitmap from my app using share intent without saving a file for a temporal location. All the examples I found are two-step 1) save to SD Card and create U

Answer 1

Here is working method to make a screenshot of own app and share it as image via any messanger or email client.

To fix the bitmap not updating problem I improved Suragch's answer, using Gurupad Mamadapur's comment and added own modifications.

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Here is code in Kotlin language:

private lateinit var myRootView:View // root view of activity
@SuppressLint("SimpleDateFormat")
private fun shareScreenshot() {
    // We need date and time to be added to image name to make it unique every time, otherwise bitmap will not update
    val sdf = SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss")
    val currentDateandTime = sdf.format(Date())
    val imageName = "/image_$currentDateandTime.jpg"       

    // CREATE
    myRootView = window.decorView.rootView
    myRootView.isDrawingCacheEnabled = true
    myRootView.buildDrawingCache(true) // maybe You dont need this
    val bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(myRootView.drawingCache)
    myRootView.isDrawingCacheEnabled = false

    // SAVE
    try {
        File(this.cacheDir, "images").deleteRecursively() // delete old images
        val cachePath = File(this.cacheDir, "images")
        cachePath.mkdirs() // don't forget to make the directory
        val stream = FileOutputStream("$cachePath$imageName")
        bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 90, stream) // can be png and any quality level
        stream.close()
    } catch (ex: Exception) {
        Toast.makeText(this, ex.javaClass.canonicalName, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show() // You can replace this with Log.e(...)
    }

    // SHARE
    val imagePath = File(this.cacheDir, "images")
    val newFile = File(imagePath, imageName)
    val contentUri = FileProvider.getUriForFile(this, "com.example.myapp.fileprovider", newFile)
    if (contentUri != null) {
        val shareIntent = Intent()
        shareIntent.action = Intent.ACTION_SEND
        shareIntent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION) // temp permission for receiving app to read this file
        shareIntent.type = "image/jpeg" // just assign type. we don't need to set data, otherwise intent will not work properly
        shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, contentUri)
        startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Choose app"))
    } 
}