react native share in a single application - react-native

Question

In my react-native app, I want to share a text message with a specific application, e.g whatsapp or texting application without having to first land on the dialog with all the social applications.
For instance if I press the share button and whatsapp is called directly.
I tried using react-native-share but it seems to not be working anymore.

Answer 1

You can use Linking, which gives you a general interface to interact with both incoming and outgoing app links.
For example:
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { Linking, Button } from 'react-native';
export class App extends Component {
render() {
return <Button
onPress={() => {
let url = 'whatsapp://send?text=Hola Mundo';
Linking.openURL(url).then((data) => {
console.log('open whatsapp')
}).catch(() => {
console.log('App not installed')
});
}}
title="Whatsapp"
color="#4FBE3C"/>;
}
}

Answer 2

For Android, the React Native Share module uses the default ACTION_SEND android intent:
Intent sharingIntent = new Intent(android.content.Intent.ACTION_SEND);
In order to have a different behavior, you need either write our own RN plugin that would talk to the app you want it to (if such feature is available) or find a similar plugin on npm.
I assume your plugin should do something like this:
Intent sendIntent = new Intent();
sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "This is my text to send.");
sendIntent.setType("text/plain");
startActivity(sendIntent);
sendIntent.setPackage("com.whatsapp");