Sharing an Image from Bitmap in Android

I had a project that required downloading an image from the internet then calling the sharing intent to share that bitmap, I went through countless entries until I reached the conclusion that it is impossible to share an image directly from a bitmap object, the bitmap must be saved first and then you can share it and if you dont want to keep a copy on disk you have to explicitly delete it.

Here are how I ended up doing it.

1. Save BitMap

String file_path = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() +
"/ProjectName";
File dir = new File(file_path);
if(!dir.exists())
dir.mkdirs();
File file = new File(dir, name);
FileOutputStream fOut;
try {
fOut = new FileOutputStream(file);
abmp.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 85, fOut);
fOut.flush();
fOut.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

2. Share URI from file

Uri uri = Uri.fromFile(file);
Intent intent = new Intent();
intent.setAction(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
intent.setType("image/*");

intent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "");
intent.putExtra(android.content.Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "");

intent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, uri);
startActivity(Intent.createChooser(intent, "Share Cover Image"));

 

If you can come up with a hack to share directly from BitMap please do share, but I dont believe it is possible.