How to filter specific apps for ACTION_SEND intent (and set a different text for each app)

Question

How can you filter out specific apps when using the ACTION_SEND intent? This question has been asked in various ways, but I haven\'t been able to gather a

Answer 1

Thanks to @dacoinminster. I make some modifications to his answer including package names of the popular apps and sorting of those apps.

List targetShareIntents = new ArrayList();
Intent shareIntent = new Intent();
shareIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
shareIntent.setType("text/plain");
PackageManager pm = getActivity().getPackageManager();
List resInfos = pm.queryIntentActivities(shareIntent, 0);
if (!resInfos.isEmpty()) {
    System.out.println("Have package");
    for (ResolveInfo resInfo : resInfos) {
        String packageName = resInfo.activityInfo.packageName;
        Log.i("Package Name", packageName);

        if (packageName.contains("com.twitter.android") || packageName.contains("com.facebook.katana")
                || packageName.contains("com.whatsapp") || packageName.contains("com.google.android.apps.plus")
                || packageName.contains("com.google.android.talk") || packageName.contains("com.slack")
                || packageName.contains("com.google.android.gm") || packageName.contains("com.facebook.orca")
                || packageName.contains("com.yahoo.mobile") || packageName.contains("com.skype.raider")
                || packageName.contains("com.android.mms")|| packageName.contains("com.linkedin.android")
                || packageName.contains("com.google.android.apps.messaging")) {
            Intent intent = new Intent();

            intent.setComponent(new ComponentName(packageName, resInfo.activityInfo.name));
            intent.putExtra("AppName", resInfo.loadLabel(pm).toString());
            intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
            intent.setType("text/plain");
            intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "https://website.com/");
            intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, getString(R.string.share_text));
            intent.setPackage(packageName);
            targetShareIntents.add(intent);
        }
    }
    if (!targetShareIntents.isEmpty()) {
        Collections.sort(targetShareIntents, new Comparator() {
            @Override
            public int compare(Intent o1, Intent o2) {
                return o1.getStringExtra("AppName").compareTo(o2.getStringExtra("AppName"));
            }
        });
        Intent chooserIntent = Intent.createChooser(targetShareIntents.remove(0), "Select app to share");
        chooserIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_INITIAL_INTENTS, targetShareIntents.toArray(new Parcelable[]{}));
        startActivity(chooserIntent);
    } else {
        Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "No app to share.", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
}