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Share a text with facebook messenger?

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Is there a way to share a text in facebook messenger using android and maybe facebook sdk as well?
I want to make something like the whatsapp way, choose your text and open an intent to choose the guy you want to send to... Is there a way to do this
with facebook messenger? It appears in the intent.choose dialog..but I only want to send to facebook messenger..

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Paul
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Sep 29 '14 at 13:58

ligi
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Sep 29 '14 at 14:00

Once you know the text that you want to share , you can use the shareACtion to directly share on messenger and messenger will let you decide which person to send this text to .
Kiloreux Sep 29 '14 at 14:07

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Checkout gist.github.com/gelldur/9c199654c91b13478979 You can share by Messanger Dawid Drozd May 27 '15 at 10:44
Well that is on iOS bro... Paul Dec 23 '15 at 9:34
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use this code onClick,,

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com.facebook.orca is the package name for fb messenger.

Intent sendIntent = new Intent();
sendIntent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
sendIntent
.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT,
"<---YOUR TEXT HERE--->.");
sendIntent.setType("text/plain");
sendIntent.setPackage("com.facebook.orca");
try
{
startActivity(sendIntent);
}
catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException ex)
{
ToastHelper.MakeShortText("Please Install Facebook Messenger");
}

EDIT:
Beginning early May 2015 Messenger no longer register itself as share intent target. Until it changes, code above won't work.

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Dhina
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Sep 29 '14 at 14:07

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May 11 '15 at 0:38

Aw yea, thanks! Love ya. Paul Sep 29 '14 at 14:27

@WizKid we can do this on Android but not ios, cant we ? Why fb does not let ios to send text over Messenger ? alicanbatur Mar 10 '15 at 9:34

Beginning early May 2015 Messenger no longer register itself as share intent target. Until it changes, code above won't work. tomash May 4 '15 at 12:36

Thanks Tomash.. unfortunate.. will update the same.! Dhina May 11 '15 at 0:37
Messenger shows up in the default system sharing picker when you share text in chrome, so it must've been added back. Tyler Pfaff Apr 21 at 23:38

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to start Facebook messenger with a particular user

Uri uri = Uri.parse("fb-messenger://user/"); uri = ContentUris.withAppendedId(uri,[provide user id]); Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, uri);
startActivity(intent);

it will start the messenger for user id you mention

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Ninad Kambli
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Apr 15 '15 at 13:13

Good to know! Thanks Paul Apr 15 '15 at 19:00

@Ninad Kambli dear pls explore the user id,how i will open specific user tanx Adil Jun 25 '15 at 8:05
user id is the one that you get when tou make a request to api of facebook i.e. "v1.0/me/friends" and get the id Ninad Kambli Jul 31 '15 at 4:32
this opens the messenger window but nothing is getting loaded. am i missing something? vipul mittal Aug 7 '15 at 5:38
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alternatively, you can use their messenger sdk (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger/android) and that will pop up a screen
where you can select one or many users to send the message to. Only catch is you can't prefill the text , but you can attach rich media.

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