Create a share Button with Material Design 3

Share Button

Share Button is just a button in your application which can be used to share

information on mail, Bluetooth, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc to an individual person or a group on any social media. We can share any type of message like text, images, videos, links, etc. 

 

In this article, we are going to create a simple Share Button.

Steps

Step 1: Create a New Project.

Step 2 : Working with the activity_main.xml file

Navigate to the app > res > layout > activity_main.xml and add the below code to that file. 

Below is the code for the activity_main.xml file. 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">
<com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton
    android:id="@+id/share_bt"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    android:text="Share"/>
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

Step 3 : Working with the MainActivity.kt file

Go to the MainActivity.kt file and add the code given below.

package com.example.androidappcodingblog

import android.content.Intent
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
import android.os.Bundle
import com.google.android.material.button.MaterialButton

class ShareButton : AppCompatActivity() {
    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)

        val bt = findViewById<MaterialButton>(R.id.share_bt)
        bt.setOnClickListener {
            val shareIntent = Intent()
            shareIntent.action = Intent.ACTION_SEND
            shareIntent.type = "text/plain"
            shareIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "this is my")
            startActivity(Intent.createChooser(shareIntent, "Share via"))
        }
    }
}

OUTPUT

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