How to exclude a specific application from ACTION_SEND Intent?

Question

I have used the following codes to exclude facebook app from my app chooser:

 List targetedShareIntents = new ArrayList();
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Answer 1

I had to exclude facebook apps as they had a broken share intent (something about user originality) using Intent#EXTRA_EXCLUDE_COMPONENTS I resorted to this:

        Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN) {
            intent.setTypeAndNormalize("text/plain");
        } else {
            intent.setType("text/plain");
        }
        intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Text to share");

        Intent chooser = Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share Text");

        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.N) {

            ArrayList targets = new ArrayList<>();

            // remove facebook which has a broken share intent
            for (ResolveInfo candidate : requireActivity().getPackageManager().queryIntentActivities(intent, 0)) {
                String packageName = candidate.activityInfo.packageName;
                if (packageName.toLowerCase().contains("facebook")) {
                    targets.add(new ComponentName(packageName, candidate.activityInfo.name));
                }
            }
            chooser.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EXCLUDE_COMPONENTS, targets.toArray(new ComponentName[0]));
        }

        startActivity(chooser);

This only works for android N and above