Sharing an image with Google+ app using Intent.ACTION_SEND and Intent.EXTRA_STREAM

Question

My app generates images that a user can save or share with others. The code below works for most apps: Messenger, Facebook, Dropbox, email, etc. Meaning, the image is load

Answer 1

The reason why you are getting this error is because of "on the sd card" is NOT "on your device".

A discussion about this issue can be found here: https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!topic/google-plus-discuss/pdlOTM8JEXg/discussion

The workaround via the MediaStore seems to be the only solution until Google updates the Google+ app with a fix.

Update: The solution mentioned above only works if you want to share an image a single time. If you call ContentResolver.insert(...) multiple times, you will end up with the image showing up multiple times in your gallery. I came up with the following solution that tries to get the existing id of the image and if it doesn't exist, you can insert it...

Cursor c = getActivity().getContentResolver()
            .query(Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
                    null,
                    Images.Media.DATA + "=?",
                    new String[] { filePath }, null);
    if (c.getCount() > 0 && c.moveToFirst()) {
        Uri shareUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(
                Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
                ""
                        + c.getInt(c
                                .getColumnIndex(Images.Media._ID)));
        c.close();

        startActivity(Intent.createChooser(
                new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND)
                        .putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM,
                                shareUri).setType(
                                   "image/*"), ""));
    } else {
    // ContentResolver.insert(...) and use that uri...
    }