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social_sharing_plus

A Flutter plugin for sharing content, images and videos to social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Reddit, and Telegram.

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Install package

flutter pub add social_sharing_plus

Package Overview

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A Flutter plugin that enables seamless sharing of text, images, and videos to popular social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Reddit, and Telegram. Designed for Android and iOS, it simplifies cross-platform social integration with a consistent API. The plugin handles platform-specific sharing intents and provides reliable access to native sharing dialogs. It supports both simple sharing and advanced configurations like custom messages and deep links.

Use cases

  • Sharing app content to social networks
  • Embedding social sharing in user-generated content
  • Integrating with community or feedback features
  • Enabling quick content distribution from within apps
  • Supporting multi-platform social outreach

Key features

  • Cross-platform support for Android and iOS
  • Native sharing dialogs on target platforms
  • Support for text, images, and videos
  • Easy integration with minimal setup
  • Handles platform-specific sharing behaviors
  • Extensible for future social media additions

Suitable for

  • Apps needing social sharing functionality
  • Content-driven applications
  • User engagement tools
  • Mobile apps targeting global audiences
  • Developers seeking lightweight sharing solutions

Considerations

  • Requires platform-specific configuration (e.g., Android manifest entries)
  • Limited to supported platforms and apps
  • May require user permission on some devices
  • Depends on external apps being installed
  • No built-in analytics for share events

Original README

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social_sharing_plus is a Flutter plugin that allows you to share content, images and videos to various social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Reddit, and Telegram. This package provides a simple and unified interface for sharing across different apps, handling the nuances and differences of each platform.

🚀 Exciting News! You can now share multiple images and videos with text(optional)! 📸🎥

Table of contents

Setup

social_sharing_plus is supported on Android and iOS platforms. On the Android side, queries are made with the package names of the respective apps. This requires the addition of some Android-specific code.

Android (click to expand)

Add queries for app packages

You need to add the following queries to your app's AndroidManifest.xml file to ensure proper redirection to the respective social media apps:

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.example.myapp">

    <queries>
        <!-- Query for Facebook -->
        <package android:name="com.facebook.katana" />
        <!-- Query for Twitter -->
        <package android:name="com.twitter.android" />
        <!-- Query for LinkedIn -->
        <package android:name="com.linkedin.android" />
        <!-- Query for Reddit -->
        <package android:name="com.reddit.frontpage" />
        <!-- Query for WhatsApp -->
        <package android:name="com.whatsapp" />
        <!-- Query for Telegram -->
        <package android:name="org.telegram.messenger" />
    </queries>

    <application>
         <!-- ... -->
    </application>
</manifest>

Media Sharing and Media Provider

This provides a specific file provider so that it can share files with other applications. To provide this functionality, you need to create an XML folder under the android>app>src>main>res folder and name it filepaths.xml. Then add the following code to the filepaths.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<paths xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <cache-path name="cache" path="." />
    <external-path name="external" path="." />
</paths>

This XML file specifies what types of files your file provider can provide. Then add a <provider> tag in your AndroidManifest.xml file like this:

<provider
    android:name="androidx.core.content.FileProvider"
    android:authorities="${applicationId}.fileprovider"
    android:exported="false"
    android:grantUriPermissions="true">
    <meta-data
        android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"
        android:resource="@xml/filepaths" />
</provider>

This <provider> tag specifies the authorization of your file provider and what file paths it provides. The android:authorities attribute specifies the identity of your file provider, and the ${applicationId}.fileprovider value uses your application's credentials. This ensures the security of your application while allowing other applications to access files.

iOS (click to expand)

No special configuration is needed for iOS.


dependencies:
  social_sharing_plus: ^1.2.3
Usage
import 'package:social_sharing_plus/social_sharing_plus.dart';

static const SocialPlatform platform = SocialPlatform.facebook;
String? _mediaPath; // add image or video path
List<String> _mediaPaths = []; // add image or video paths
bool isMultipleShare = true;

isMultipleShare
    ? await SocialSharingPlus.shareToSocialMediaWithMultipleMedia(
        platform,
        media: _mediaPaths,
        content: content,
        isOpenBrowser: false,
        onAppNotInstalled: () {
          ScaffoldMessenger.of(context)
            ..hideCurrentSnackBar()
            ..showSnackBar(SnackBar(
              content: Text('${platform.name.capitalize} is not installed.'),
            ));
        },
      )
    : await SocialSharingPlus.shareToSocialMedia(
        platform,
        content,
        media: _mediaPath,
        isOpenBrowser: true,
      );

Properties

  • shareToSocialMedia:
Properties Required Default Description
socialPlatform true Platform you want to share on
content true Any text you want to share
media false The image or video you want to share
isOpenBrowser false true If the relevant application is not installed, it redirects to the link (browser) of the relevant application.
onAppNotInstalled false This method works if the application is not installed and the isOpenBrowser value is set to false. (For example: Showing a Snackbar like "The application is not installed on your device."...)
  • shareToSocialMediaWithMultipleMedia:
Properties Required Default Description
socialPlatform true Platform you want to share on
content false Any text you want to share
media true The image or video you want to share
isOpenBrowser false true If the relevant application is not installed, it redirects to the link (browser) of the relevant application.
onAppNotInstalled false This method works if the application is not installed and the isOpenBrowser value is set to false. (For example: Showing a Snackbar like "The application is not installed on your device."...)
Screenshots
Dart Version
  sdk: '>=2.17.0 <4.0.0'
Issues

Please file any issues, bugs, or feature requests as an issue on our GitHub page.

Contribute

If you would like to contribute to the plugin (e.g. by improving the documentation, solving a bug, or adding a cool new feature), please carefully review our contribution guide and send us your pull request.

Author

This social_sharing_plus plugin for Flutter is developed by Bedirhan Sağlam. You can contact me at <bedirhansaglam270@gmail.com>

License

MIT

Categories

Dependencies

Dependency list 1 items

  • plugin_platform_interface^2.0.2

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